Two games today at 1:05 pm EST kick off baseball's Opening Day, and we here at the Santa Lechuga Power League couldn't be happier. We're three teams away from matching last year's 48 teams and we are looking at the possibility that we will match or even overtake our 2005 and 2006 high of 50 teams. As our past champs will tell you, more teams means more cash to award our winners. If you haven't gotten your roster to us yet, do so by 1:04 EST. You can e-mail me your roster or use our handy-dandy form.

Note to our seven (thus far) new owners: We don't typically flood your e-mail In Box with messages all season. There will be a flurry of e-mails as the season gets underway, then we'll only e-mail you at key times, like trade deadlines, the All Star break, the end-of-season/playoffs, and when Commissioner Rube Furrow comes out of his stupor and wants to make (what he considers to be) an important league announcement.

Opening Day, people! Opening Day!

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Check out this SLPL Video Classic. (It will take a while to load ... give it a coupla minutes.)

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The Santa Lechuga Power League is a campy little fantasy baseball league. It’s no slick-CBS-Sportsline-type league where nobody knows anybody and everybody just wants to end up in the 51st-percentile or above. Instead, the SLPL is made up of family and friends and extended family and friends of Joe and Tony Livernois, who run the thing for their own amusement and for the amusement of said family and friends. And because Jay (as his family knows him) and Tony are simple-minded goofs, they run a simple little league. Homeruns and strikeouts. That’s all we track. Oh, and the deaths of Hall-of-Famers and Creepy Cardinals pitchers. It’s that easy.

If you’re thinking about joining, here are the basic steps you need to complete to become a new owner:

1. Learn the rules. Abide.
2. See the payouts. Drool.
3. Submit a roster. Good luck.
4. Pay already. Soon.
5. Contact us. But only with compliments or questions. No whining.

Plan on joining us in 2011, wontchya? And if you’re looking for a little light reading once the season gets start, why not catch up on the History of the SLPL or read up on the evil Bobblehead-of-Lettuce?

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Longtime owner Sue Klinkhamer checks in with Vice President of Something or Other Pedregoso Rios to talk about their inspiration for creating and running the Creepy Cardinals Pitcher Death Watch Pool, which is up to $800 this season. They also talk about the league’s other bit of ghoulishness, the Hall-of-Fame Death Pool. Longtime league owner Dan Klinkhamer also makes a cameo.

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Vice President of Stuff Pedregoso Rios and longtime owner Suzie Rochellle talk about the vast winnings you can scrape off the table of the Santa Lechuga Power League and discuss responsible ways to spend those vast winnings. They deftly avoid a” too soon" joke about Japan and Suzie talks about wanting to beat up Past-Champ David "Eddie" Edison for his Over-the-Line-like team name that Suzie thinks is truly over the line.

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Vice President of Things Pedregoso Rios and past Overall Champ Vince Livernois talk about new trade rules taking effect for the 2011 season. Vince is consistently one of the most prolific trading owners in the league but his propensity to drop the deadweight from his roster got him into trouble last season. Bad for him but good for us since he proposed some trade changes that have led to the SLPL to offer free trades this season. Check out how in this video.

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Commissioner Rube Furrow and Vice President of Some Sort Pedregoso Rios describe what's new and different in the SLPL for 2011. Also includes outtakes (starting at 7:16) of Rube proposing a trade rule change for 2012, updating us on the lingering consequences of Espy Espinosa's firing, and singing about the best part of waking up.

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Commissioner Rube Furrow and Apparent Vice President Pedregoso Rios talk about what you need to do to become an owner in the Santa Lechuga Power League.

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Commissioner Rube Furrow and Vice President of Some Sort Pedregoso Rios welcome potential new owners and give an overview of the Santa Lechuga Power League, the best damn fantasy baseball league in the world (because we said it is). In the outtakes, which begin at 8:03, Rube talks in third person about Rube, then describes his inspiration for starting the league.

Tip of the ballcap to longtime owner Kevin Klinkhamer for inspiring Pedregoso’s bad-a** hat positioning. Word up!

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Commissioner Rube Furrow does what Rube Furrow does, which is to be inappropriate around women. The worst part for Rube is that the entire conversation with Martha was caught on video.

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The 2011 Santa Lechuga Power League is here to fill the world's gaping vacuum known as decent fantasy baseball. If these knuckleheads could just sober up ...

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