Tuesday, November 21st, 2006...11:17 am
Further Conquests of the Mainstream Media by this Humble Blogger
There is an article on the front page of this morning’s Arizona Daily Star on the Fantasy Congress game. The article was inspired, in part, by the post about the game last week on this blog.
I, your most supplicatory host, am quoted as a “Democratic die-hard” with a team. There was one thing that was a bit unclear though. My statement about “those guys get their names on a surprising number of bills” was not about Thad Cochran or Raúl Grijalva, but about the territorial delegates. The reporter was wondering why I had picked one, Madeleine Z. Bordallo from Guam.
I can see the call from Grijalva already.
“Hey, so what are you saying, that it’s suprising that I get my name on bills? You’re killing me, man.”
Lucky for me, Senator Cochran doesn’t know who the heck I am.
Apparently, this blog was also mentioned by fellow blogger Zelph over on the Truth to Power Hour on Air America Phoenix. The evidence of this is still up on that show’s blog.
NB - I think there is still room for more members in our league on Fantasy Congress. Look up the league name “R Cubed” and the password is “udall.”
4 Comments
November 21st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
The only thing is it is structured differently from other fantasy games in that more than one person can pick the member of Congress.
Which is probably good for me since I joined late and still got to pick Sen. Byrd.
I do notice however that they aren’t very regular about updating their point totals.
November 21st, 2006 at 3:39 pm
And Ted–
If you’re humble then I’m young.
See ya on the second.
November 21st, 2006 at 6:00 pm
My team is number two!
November 21st, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I do a weekly feature on the “Truth to Power Hour” called “Focus on Arizona” at about 2:15pm every Saturday. I rely on your blog as well as other Arizona bloggers to keep me up to speed on what is happening, since our local media does such a terrible job at covering state politics. I’ve plugged Eli’s blog as well as yours.