My first league has filled up. I started a second one, details on that one are at the bottom of this story.
My annual free Yahoo Fantasy baseball league is online. As in years past, I’ve asked folks from my site to come and play. If you’re interested, I’d love to have you, but please don’t join if you don’t want to stay the entire season. There’s nothing more fun than people who sign up and then are inactive.
We will be conducting a live draft again, and the date I’ve set is Friday March 11th at 8PM Central Time. I would have picked earlier, but my wife and I have family in for our baby shower the weekend before that. If too many people object, I’ll look at another time, but with this starting so late, there will likely not be a lot of slots available for drafts.
If you’re interested in joining the second league, here’s the info:
Fantasy URL: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1
League ID: 53220
Password: cansecoroids
BTW, if you joined either of the leagues, please post something in the msg area of the fantasy league telling people who you are. In the first league I’m “Steroids Good!” (which I’ll explain later, it’s a joke), and in the second I’m “The Blalock Bunch”.

I just read tonight where Yahoo Fantasy Baseball lives! There’d normally be thousands of leagues drafted and many ready to go, but due to MLB.com’s attempt to make itself the center of all fantasy baseball (or so it seemed), the Yahoo fantasy baseball site looked closed. Indeed, until today, the message “The 2004 season is over, thanks for playing” was there. However, tonight, I read this:
Registration for the 2005 season will begin shortly after midnight (ET) on Thursday, February 17.
Yay! My Fantasy League lives on. As regular visitors of my site know, I’ve had a league I’ve done for the last 4 or 5 years or so, this means I’ll set something up on Thursday, so we can have a live draft for my league as usual. Hopefully those who sign up will stick around for the whole season (Hi Owen!). Anyway, I’ll have more details on this at the end of the week.

This afternoon, I have a few updates to the site.
First off, is a proper update to the 40 man roster and the spring training invites. The info I posted the other day came from the Dallas Morning News, who seemed to do a half assed job of getting the information together this year, as it was a direct copy from the Rangers Official Site. The problem with that is the Rangers site doesn’t have the complete information. I was informed by someone on my forums that the Ft Worth Star Telegram had the full spring training roster, including several non roster invites that weren’t listed on the Rangers site/DMN site. Additionally, it had uniform numbers for all the players, no matter how obscure they were. This is good, so I’ve updated my roster page and my uniform number history section with all the current numbers.
Second is the schedule. I noticed yesterday that I still did not have times or TV schedule information up for the regular season. Furthermore, the 3 or so TV games from spring training also weren’t listed. The Rangers site did list five spring training games on TV (3 by FSN, 2 by ESPN), so I added them to my site. However, their site did not list TV information for the regular season. I was informed again by someone on my forums that the 2005 Printable Schedule from the Rangers site has the full schedule information. So today I brought my 2005 schedule up to speed with all the TV channels and times for all the games. Check it out.
It is odd that the Rangers have the full schedule online via the printable schedule, but not the regular one. However, they don’t have their act together with the roster, so I guess I’m not surprised, really.