SFist fully admits to being a fantasy sport geek, although just how big of a fantasy geek we are, we will never let anyone know. Suffice to say that our in-depth knowledge of the Brewers farm system ranks us pretty high. We also have to admit that for whatever reason, we've been having trouble getting into fantasy baseball this season. Early spring weather? An actual job? Too much time posting on SFist? Who knows. We do know, however, that we just got the kick in the pants we needed to start reading through all those super-exciting fantasy baseball books. It was announced yesterday that Yahoo! and the San Francisco Giants are teaming together for a new contest in which the winner of this years' fantasy baseball league will get a job working with Giants GM Brian Sabean.
Doing what hasn't been determinted, but the job does carry with it the title of "Special Assistant." Why, you’ll be just like George Costanza, although we don’t think Sabean will allow you to change the fabric of the Giants’ jerseys. The winner will get paid a salary of only $30,000, plus $15,000 for winning the whole thing, but who friggin' cares? How fun would it be to be able to give Sabaen advice, like maybe signing somebody younger than 36 years old or maybe drafting an infielder who might actually make it to the bigs. What red-blooded, patriotic, beer drinking, baseball-loving American wouldn't want this job?
In order to register for the contest, entrants have a deadline of April 6th to sign up on the Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball site. After signing up, you have to answer trivia questions and then write a 150 word answer to a strategic question. Judges will then pick 12 contestants and then, it’s on. It's the stat heads very own "American Idol" except instead of Simon Crowell, Clay Aiken, and William Hung it'll be Barry Bonds, Pedro Feliz, and Merkin Valdez. How cool is that?
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