After the real football season (week 16 or 17 of the regular season depending on your league rules) comes to an end, there is not much out there to help the fantasy aficionado pass the time at work. Sure reading blogs and watching last nights Daily Show clips on YouTube is a good way to kill a couple of hours, but nothing compares to the constant trade scheming, stat tracking, waiver watching and lineup setting like fantasy sports. Sure you have fantasy basketball, and I play it to pass the time, but it doesn’t lend itself to the same excitement as the football season. Maybe its because no matter what I do, I can never win the 3pt and turnover categories. But more likely it is because how much can you really care about 1 more rebound, or 1 more point, or 1 of your 7 guards getting 1 more assist. Who cares…
Fortunately, fantasy baseball is right around the corner. The king of all fantasy sports, bar none. Draft times are being set and rankings are being dissected as we speak. Fantasy football is great because it all builds up to one day a week. Usually you are watching the games with your fantasy league friends, so you can talk shit to them while you are watching. But baseball is unmatched. The number of games, the detail of the stats (35% of people polled still aren’t exactly sure what WHIP is), mid-season call-ups, every kids childhood dream of being a ballplayer realized just a little bit. Plus, the shear number of players make for the most intense and dedication-necessary fantasy sport there is (read as, the best way to pass time at work - especially since it is doubly hard to focus on work as the weather gets nice).
Better yet, there are players named Evan Longoria expected to make big impacts this year. Evan Longoria, really? I am sure that as soon as Desperate Housewives dropped, his friends were primed and ready to make fun of him for the obvious. But then they realized he was a young baseball super-prospect, soon to be millionaire, who was probably banging every hot girl in cape cod, so they backed off. Obligatory pictures of Eva Longoria for your enjoyment…
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Funston you are a douchebag, how do I (or just about anyone else) apply for your job since you seem to suck pretty bad at it.