My first blog. By the time I first really understood what blogging is, it was already huge. So while I felt the concept was kind of cool, I never gave it a try. I guess I didn't want to be a bandwagon jumper, especially trying to get on when it seemed the train (er, bandwagon) already left the station, long ago, and was already on the far side of the mountain.

So what happened? Well, Waldman* pitches an idea that we should do a blog about our fantasy football teams in a particular dynasty league to help others learn a thing or two about building a dynasty. Or at least be entertaining, or maybe a bit of both.

* Given the perceived high percentage of Mike's populating the fantasy football industry, I'm very much in the habit of calling Mike Krueger of FF Today fame, "Krueger". Matt will in most cases be given an equal amount of disrespect** and henceforth be called "Waldman".

** I understand sarcasm doesn't always work well over the Internet, but I can't help myself. Consider all things I type to quite possibly have a sarcastic undertone. You'll get the hang of it soon enough.

I have to wonder if this is the best way for me to go about writing my first blog. The thing with Waldman is he writes about a mile a minute, and by my estimation, only sleeps between the hours of 3:00 am and 6:00 am each night. I'm a fairly slow writer to the point I've strongly considered retiring my regular FF Today in-season column, FF In The Groin. In fact I said as much at our annual FF Today think tank meeting recently. I'd hate to abandon it after 5 years and plenty of nice emails received. We'll see. At any rate hopefully blogging is easier (read: quicker) but I suspect no matter what, this will be a challenge to keep up with him.

Plus a secondary, but minor concern, is my Toronto Toucans team has no where to go but down as reigning champ, top scoring regular season team for 3 straight seasons and a nice group of top tier players on my roster. Waldman's aptly named Out to Lunch squad on the other hand, has relatively low expectations attached to it. I like what he is doing with his team and while he has yet to earn a playoff spot in his 3 seasons, he was in the hunt until the final weeks last year. All in all though, given the law of averages, no matter what I say and do the Toucans might be due for a down season and OTL is a nice Cinderella candidate to rise up the charts. I can't help but wonder if this is a bit of a setup move on his part. Is he smelling blood in the water perhaps?

Fortunately I'm willing to throw caution to the wind. Lets get blogging...