Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Note From the Editor: Commence au festival!

En l'honneur de mardi gras cette phrase est en français : Les sports en mars sont merveilleux.

Translation: Let's get March started!

Big topics of March on the Back Seat Drivers will include: MLB preview, March Madness, NFL draft, NBA playoff push, implementation of the Basil II bank accord and Hart's expose on Wisconsin titled "Last Frontier or Actual State?".
Just a few notes for our loyal readers, customers, NSA eavesdroppers....

1) We will be doing our second annual March Madness Pick'em Challenge. Any and all are welcome but in starting March 12th, the editors will be sending out brackets. The winner get's the option of either 3/4 of Colonel's life savings or a hot corn beef sandwhich on rye (and yes it will have deli mustard on it).

2) The MLB preview/predictions are open as of March 1. After careful consultation with the executive board of our esteemed Buck O'Neil Institute for Baseball Excellence, we have named two Baseball Fellows for the 2006 season: MJ and Hitman. As part of their duties (and priviledges) they will be handling the first round of baseball previews. What this means is that MJ (for AL divisions) and Hitman (for NL divisions) will have first crack at division by division analysis. Once they post, the topic is open for postings/comments. Any other non-division analysis (dark horses, front runners, MVPs, Epstein's jail bait fetish,etc) is of course open to the floor at all times.

3) Speaking of baseball...I agree with Keith Olberman's post. Of all of baseball's dumb moves this year, this seems among the worst. As part of my own protest the Back Seat Driver's Baseball Institute was officially named for the great Negro League hero, who was unceremoniously and indefensiably ignored.

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