by joethejet » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:16 pm
While we're waiting for AT make his pick, I found this today in the Giants' beat writer's blog. I didn't know Miller was playing in the back to the 80's league! :shock:
'He (Jon Miller) used to be a major Strat-O-Matic enthusiast as a kid, but he has refrained from participating in any kind of fantasy leagues after he began his broadcasting career. He didn’t want to confuse the fantasy world from the real one. He changed his mind this year, though. He was invited to play in a league using stats from a season in the 1980s, so he figured there wouldn’t be any harm in that. Even Jamie Moyer was a minor leaguer back then.
But Miller was broadcasting an ESPN game a couple weeks ago between the Cubs and Brewers when a reliever on one of those Strat-O-Matic rosters did him in.
“The Cubs have a second baseman named Mike Fontenot,” Miller said. “And I kept calling him Ray Fontenot.”'