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A Brilliant Idea
11/27/06
So, here I am, sitting in my hotel room out in Vegas waiting for some BS corporate meeting to start. I'm bored as hell so I'm looking over some baseball articles from over the years and I stumble across a few articles detailing baseball leagues that never managed to get started.
I get to thinking about how I would start a baseball league and how I would run the league and such. Then, I start dreaming about how much control I could have over my league, like which teams get placed where, what rules the players would play by, and how much money players could make. And the best part would be, No one could question my judgment since I would be the commissioner. Then, someone knocks on my door yelling to me that the meeting is about to start and I better get my butt down there.
I'm sitting in my chair listening to my boss ramble on about company expenditures & whatever the hell else he was talking about. I'm not really sure because I wasn't paying the least bit of attention to him, I was too busy thinking about all the possibilities of me running my very own baseball league. Although in my mind, I knew I had nowhere near enough money to even come close to starting a league of my own, it was a dream and nothing more than that. The meeting finished up and I boarded the 7:45 flight back to my house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Now, it's about a week later and I'm listening to the morning news and they're talking about how the Powerball Lottery is up to $245 million and anyone that hits it would be set for life and more. Now, I'm not what you'd call the gamblin' type, but I decided what could it hurt to spend a couple of bucks on some lotto tickets. I run down to the local Quikstop and buy $5 worth of Powerball tickets, I just quick picked them because I was in a hurry and didn't feel like picking them myself.
The time comes on the news when they announce the winning numbers for the Powerball. I fumble through some papers and pull out my tickets not really expecting to even match one number. The guy on TV says, "12". Ok, I got that, I'm already impressed. Next, he says, "14". Whoa, 2 numbers for me! He then says, "23". First thing I think is, that is Michael Jordan's number but then I realize i have 23 on my ticket! The next number he says is "37". I look and see I have 37 on my ticket as well! I have guaranteed myself $1,000. I'm thinking there is no way I'll have the last number. From the TV, I hear the number "47". I look down at my ticket and see 47!!! I'm in utter shock realizing that I've just won $100,000. The last number to be called is the Powerball and if I hit this, I would win $245 million. The guy on the TV takes a deep breath and reads out the number "22". I look at my ticket and it has 22!!!!!!! I'VE JUST HIT THE POWERBALL!!!!!!!!!!
Jump ahead in the story, I realize I can finally achieve my dream of only a week earlier of owning my baseball league and so I start up the EWMBL which will be further discussed next time.
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