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  Spring is the time when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. This is usually because the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue comes out in February and after a month of digesting every image, a randy population of males are ready to sprint from their flannel cocoons and get their freak on. Outside of this dysfunctional little feature to the advent of spring, it is also the time that new episodes of the World Poker Tour will be debuting on the GSN Network.



  Airing new episodes in late March was probably such a good idea in the heads of the GSN executives. Football is over, baseball has not yet started, and unless you know what the blue line is for in hockey chances are you are not watching that sport, so they could take advantage of the sports vacuum that accompanies that late winter/early spring malaise. Of course now that the Hollywood writers' strike is over, the best laid plans have just been dumped into the ratings landfill.



  The premiere of the sixth season of the World Poker Tour is now happening at the same time that some of the most popular shows on television are resuming their seasons. When given a choice between watching a new episode of "The Office", "Chuck", or "My Name is Earl" and a bunch of people playing poker, a significant chunk of the audience is going to turn to what NBC, CBS, and ABC are showing that night.



  This is by no means doom for the WPT's sixth season: it just adds a challenge that they probably did not have to originally contend with. Perhaps offering viewers the chance to win a date with Kimberly Lansing or Layla Kayleigh would ensure that their viewers keep their hands off the television remote. Hey, a little out of the box thinking never hurt.