Attorneys representing Major League Baseball argued Thursday that online fantasy baseball companies cannot operate without paying license fees to MLB to compensate players for the use of their names. [physorg]

It’s Tecmo SuperBowl all over again, where you get players’ names like “QBEagles”. I gotta say that QBEagles was the man…the only man on that offense (in that Tecmo).  Yes, that’s right, MLB.  Chase away fans in whatever method you can think of. Look how well it’s worked out for hockey and the RIAA.  As God as my witness, I had no idea the RIAA ran MLB

I can’t even comprehend Fantasy Baseball, I always figured it to be the lesser weird uncle of dungeons and dragons.   Obviously, the lucrative autograph selling market isn’t enough generating enough money to pay the astonomical player salaries.  Johan Santana of the Twins is forecast to command 200 million dollars when he becomes a free agent.  If this comes to fruition then the MLB will lose me as a fan. As a jersey-buying, hat-buying, and more importantly, ticket-buying fan.