# ---
  # Caching!

  # THIS METHOD IS NOT IDEAL and was probably a bad idea. if a list of teams is pre-loaded via sql,
  # this method will go to memcached anyway, which is dumb. haven't been able to find away
  # around it. rails doesn't seem happy about me overriding a has_many association method.
  # probably need to rename this to affiliations_cached or something like that, and use it explicitly
  # when needed. will fix when i have time. bugzID 702.

  # assuming that a team's primary affiliation, division, league,
  # conference, sport, and parent NEVER change,
  # and that affiliations themselves are NEVER updated.
  # if we ever need to reset these, then we can do so by updating Team's or Affiliation's
  # class-level version
  alias_method :uncached_affiliations, :affiliations
  def affiliations
    get_cache("affiliations:#{self.cache_config[:version]}:#{Affiliation.cache_config[:version]}") do
      uncached_affiliations
    end
  end

  # ---