This season we're going to be trying a new News & Notes format. Instead of the weekly column (which we all know was more of a "non-column" last season), I'll be doing more of a blog-type column. That is, whenever the mood strikes, be it stats night on Monday, the middle of a West Coast game on Wednesday night, or maybe even a Friday morning before I leave for work, I'll come here and post entries. Sometimes it will be a paragraph or two, sometimes longer.

I'll make sure I put a date on everything so you can easily tell what's new from what you may have already read. So feel free to come to this page often, or continue checking in once a week as the stats update, to check out and catch up on the latest entries in what I hope to be a season long blog.

If anyone else has anything to contribute, I'll be more than happy to post it here, with all credit given to the author of course. And if we get one of our infamous 20+ reply e-mail threads going, I may also opt to copy that into this space as well so it's saved for all posterity.

August 5th, 2007

"Smithers come quickly! There's been some kind of accident at the nuclear plant and we need to begin the media cover-up! You see, since that Quat guy gave our movie such a nice review last week I was giving the fine fellows of the Full Monty Fantasy Baseball League a personal tour of the dormant reactor core when that dunderpate Homer Simpson accidentally started it up! Now as a result of his bumbling I'm afraid the entire league of owners has been Simpsonized! Those poor men! What have I done to them? What kind of retribution will I have to pay to their widows and children? Quick Smithers we need a distraction! Alert the media that Barry Bonds was seen in the Springfield GNC with A-Rod's wife and David Beckham and I'll see what I can do about the bodies..."

What sort of Hell-on-Springfield has Homer's accident spawned? What unimagined horrors have the owners of this league suffered? What in Zeus' name was David Beckham doing in the Springfield GNC? But more importantly, back to our victims... The whole league "Simpsonized"? Oh the humanity! What kind of genetic bouillabaisse did Mr. Burns leave stewing in the reactor core?

Well just click here to see for yourself! Actually, make that to actually see yourself, for yourself...