[majormet]

(This dynasty is about a character that will be drafted in 2010 in my Las Vegas Croupiers dynasty)

I sit at home on the eve of the 2010 Amateur Baseball draft as a player that will be selected at some point, because just about everyone gets drafted. I wish I could tell you that I was some hungry kid that is looking to sign a bonus paycheck to make it some day to the major leagues, but I'm not. I am Chase Sanford and I am just a rich kid with a minor dream.

My life started just like most middle class kids. I was being raised in East Meadow, Long Island, New York as the only child of a computer programmer and a stay at home "mom". My dad would get home early from work and he would have catches with me, and we would watch the Mets play. Being born in 1989, it took a few years to get to 1999 to see the Mets make the postseason but that was one of my fondest youth memories.

From the time I was around 6 years old, my father wanted me to be a pitcher and we would go to the park and he would squat and catch my pitches. He managed my little league teams, and my summer and fall travel teams. Life was great. We were avid baseball fans.

I made my varsity team in 9th grade and hurled 2 perfect games and then pitched a shutout in 10th grade in 2004, then my life changed.

My dad used to stay up late at night playing with the computer. Somewhere in those nights he developed technology so that people can broadcast themselves online and he sold that technology for a whopping 225 million dollars to Google. Needless to say as I was in 11th grade, my life changed.

Dad seemed to have lost his interest in baseball, maybe it was the steroids in the game, maybe it was the lack of solid pitching or just maybe it was 225 milllion bucks. We sold our modest home and my dad bought a luxury ocean liner and we sailed around the world.

I was being home schooled by the finest instructors as we were in Berlin one night and Munich the next. For 2 full years we sailed around the world and saw everything. I had not picked up a baseball and I just learned to study on board and pick up women from all over the world. i might have slept with over 50 women in 50 different countries in 2005 and 2006.

The international cruising came to a halt and my parents boughts a home in Upper Brookville on the North Shore of Long Island. I got into Stanford and headed to Palo Alto.

The first 2 years at Stanford I got to have some fun and I hit the books well. I went to the football games and basketball games. In my Junior Year, I became friends with a guy named Jeff Spencer who became my best friend. He was on the baseball team and we played in some pickup games and fooled around. He saw that I could pitch and got me a tryout with the baseball team.

I made the team and pitched OK in my junior year in light use. An injury to the ace of the staff in 2010 (the past couple of months) and I was now pitching against USC, Arizona State and Oregon State. We did OK, we qualified for the College World Series and got ousted by Rice, but I left some impression on agents and scouts and was advised to hit the draft.

My agent, Andy Ashe feels I will go in the 6th round in this draft. Given my family's financial status I probably never have to work, so why not give it a try.

My timing is also pretty good because Major League Baseball expanded in 2010 with 4 teams desperate for pitching. If I end up on any of those teams, I could fast track to the majors. If I end up on an established team I will most likely be headed to some one story town in the minors, but I have nothing to lose.

Hopefully if I get drafted, my father will notice and renew his interest in baseball and my life, and at the same time, I can pick up where my legacy started.