I threatened to bug you about this again on Friday, and here we are.

With Leather is teaming up with Fanduel.com to bring you a free fantasy baseball event that could earn you a huge wad of $1,000 in cash simply for picking someone who’d be better at baseball on April 5 than Omar Infante. He’s on my time. So are a bunch of guys who are gonna get hurt on April 4. I’m not great at these.

It’s a one day contest and works like you’d expect … you draft the best team you can under the salary cap and play them against the league. You can track your team’s progress through live scoring, and you get paid out at the end of the day once all games have ended. Then you look at how I’ve performed and see if you’re better than me. Then you go to my website and brag at me until I shut down With Leather completely in anger.

100 entrants are taking home money, so be sure to sign up for this immediately and set up your team. You’ll have fun, it won’t cost you anything, and worst case scenario you’ll win enough to bankroll a small market team.

From the illegal aliens working in the kitchens of baseball’s biggest stars comes “Diamond Dishes,” a cookbook written by the wife of the monstrous, colored-lenses troll who owns the Florida Marlins. It is also the worst David Bowie album ever. Of course, “writing a cookbook” is like producing a movie, or inking a comic book. You’re just taking a hi res picture of yourself smiling while putting a fork in your mouth and pasting it to the back of a bunch of recipes. I’ve seen the Screech’s Secret Sauce episode of Saved by the Bell, I know how this works.

And man, is there anything worse in the world than when baseball players try to be “human?” Like when they record albums? I know you don’t walk around your house wearing a gigantic plain pastel blue sweater, Travis Hafner, you wear Affliction shirts and Under Armour and this picture of you holding a pie isn’t going to convince me differently.

Today’s Dugout is about cookbooks, and why they are so awesome.

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