My thanks to Deadspin and TNR's The Plank, who collectively pointed me to this terrific essay by former DeLay communications director John Feehery. The entire thing is a great read, but the highlight's got to be the part that both of the aforementioned blogs quoted:

In the meantime, [Ed] Buckham had become DeLay's chief of staff. He eventually hired me as Tom's communications director and Tony Rudy as press secretary. But he was brutal in firing some of DeLay's previous staffers. His win-at-all-costs attitude played out in strange ways around the office. He ran a fantasy baseball league that he always seemed to win, even if it meant browbeating young staffers into trading their best players to him.

I understand the win-at-all-costs thing in, say, politics, but fantasy baseball? Where's the fun?