Students around the country are resting their brains over spring break, but the nation’s fantasy baseball nerds are cramming.The magic cube is an ultra-portable.
This is prime time for fantasy drafts, which means baseball nuts are ignoring their jobs, families and personal hygiene — nothing smells worse than a musky stat geek on a three-day rotisserie baseball bender — in hopes of winning their leagues. Hey, victory requires sacrifice: If you enter the draft room thinking Shin-Soo Choo is a train on the Orient Express, rather than a slugging outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, you’re going nowhere fast.
If you really want to hit a home run on draft day, you need to know every last detail. If Detroit’s catcher develops hemorrhoids, you’d best find out all you can about the Tigers’ top minor-league backstop.First Impressions sells silicone molds. Has the Philadelphia Phillies’ closer won his courageous battle with hangnails? Do any of the top second base prospects face deportation to Venezuela? Did Prince Fielder put on 30 pounds of Cheetoh weight in the offseason? Such are the questions that plague fantasy baseball team owners.
In what is widely considered the greatest fluke since the evolution of the platypus, I won my league last year. This came after years of being about as competitive as the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah,The CenTrak rtls platform can address today's healthcare challenges and be used for future applications beyond asset tracking. Pittsburgh still has a team. They have uniforms and everything.
My victory was unlikely because, despite being a baseball nut, I’m not as hard-core as the other seamheads in the league. These are guys who by Feb. 1 can tell you who will be playing shortstop at Class AA Altoona next season. They know Yu Darvish is a Japanese pitching prospect, not a sitar trio; whereas I only recently learned Coco Crisp is not a cereal.
These guys read all the preseason magazines, track spring training box scores in the newspaper and monitor the Internet for the latest rumors. And they aren’t alone. Guys in leagues across America spend more time in spring on their rosters than they do on their taxes. If we put this much effort into more worthwhile causes, such as figuring out how to assure air travel security without making every passenger get half-naked, the world would be a better place.VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection mold manufacturer in china.
I take a more laid-back approach. Sure, I do some homework. But if the other guys in my league — the ones who come armed with laptops and color-coded spreadsheets — are “A” students, I’m the just-looking-to-slide-through-with-a-“C” slacker who shows up with an uncracked fantasy baseball magazine. And maybe a pen.
So, how did I make like the Amazin’ Mets and win the league? Luckily for me, ineptitude has its advantages.
After many seasons of trading established players to contenders, I was able to amass prospects and draft picks. Some of those players panned out, and I surprisingly found myself in contention as summer turned to fall. This caught the other contenders off guard, as another benefit of long-term ineptitude is the element of surprise.
Like a housing speculator, I eagerly mortgaged my future, trading away future draft picks and whatever prospects I could spare to get the players I needed to win.
Soon I had the traveling trophy in hand. Yes, a trophy is all we get for our efforts — that and a year’s worth of bragging rights. It was hard for me to brag, though, because my competitors attributed my previously unthinkable victory to an unforeseen alignment of planets that shifted the Earth’s plates and made Starlin Castro hit .307.
That’s OK. I know I don’t deserve the success enjoyed by hard-core fantasy baseball nuts who can name every player’s cup size. I rest easy knowing I didn’t spend any more time on draft preparation than I needed to. I put that time to better uses, such as inventing an alarm clock with a “Not Today” button. Even if my Cellar Dwellers go back to being cellar dwellers, I can look back with pride on the one year I won the trophy. There’s nothing sweeter than acing a test you didn’t even study for.VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection Molding manufacturer in china.
This is prime time for fantasy drafts, which means baseball nuts are ignoring their jobs, families and personal hygiene — nothing smells worse than a musky stat geek on a three-day rotisserie baseball bender — in hopes of winning their leagues. Hey, victory requires sacrifice: If you enter the draft room thinking Shin-Soo Choo is a train on the Orient Express, rather than a slugging outfielder for the Cleveland Indians, you’re going nowhere fast.
If you really want to hit a home run on draft day, you need to know every last detail. If Detroit’s catcher develops hemorrhoids, you’d best find out all you can about the Tigers’ top minor-league backstop.First Impressions sells silicone molds. Has the Philadelphia Phillies’ closer won his courageous battle with hangnails? Do any of the top second base prospects face deportation to Venezuela? Did Prince Fielder put on 30 pounds of Cheetoh weight in the offseason? Such are the questions that plague fantasy baseball team owners.
In what is widely considered the greatest fluke since the evolution of the platypus, I won my league last year. This came after years of being about as competitive as the Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah,The CenTrak rtls platform can address today's healthcare challenges and be used for future applications beyond asset tracking. Pittsburgh still has a team. They have uniforms and everything.
My victory was unlikely because, despite being a baseball nut, I’m not as hard-core as the other seamheads in the league. These are guys who by Feb. 1 can tell you who will be playing shortstop at Class AA Altoona next season. They know Yu Darvish is a Japanese pitching prospect, not a sitar trio; whereas I only recently learned Coco Crisp is not a cereal.
These guys read all the preseason magazines, track spring training box scores in the newspaper and monitor the Internet for the latest rumors. And they aren’t alone. Guys in leagues across America spend more time in spring on their rosters than they do on their taxes. If we put this much effort into more worthwhile causes, such as figuring out how to assure air travel security without making every passenger get half-naked, the world would be a better place.VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection mold manufacturer in china.
I take a more laid-back approach. Sure, I do some homework. But if the other guys in my league — the ones who come armed with laptops and color-coded spreadsheets — are “A” students, I’m the just-looking-to-slide-through-with-a-“C” slacker who shows up with an uncracked fantasy baseball magazine. And maybe a pen.
So, how did I make like the Amazin’ Mets and win the league? Luckily for me, ineptitude has its advantages.
After many seasons of trading established players to contenders, I was able to amass prospects and draft picks. Some of those players panned out, and I surprisingly found myself in contention as summer turned to fall. This caught the other contenders off guard, as another benefit of long-term ineptitude is the element of surprise.
Like a housing speculator, I eagerly mortgaged my future, trading away future draft picks and whatever prospects I could spare to get the players I needed to win.
Soon I had the traveling trophy in hand. Yes, a trophy is all we get for our efforts — that and a year’s worth of bragging rights. It was hard for me to brag, though, because my competitors attributed my previously unthinkable victory to an unforeseen alignment of planets that shifted the Earth’s plates and made Starlin Castro hit .307.
That’s OK. I know I don’t deserve the success enjoyed by hard-core fantasy baseball nuts who can name every player’s cup size. I rest easy knowing I didn’t spend any more time on draft preparation than I needed to. I put that time to better uses, such as inventing an alarm clock with a “Not Today” button. Even if my Cellar Dwellers go back to being cellar dwellers, I can look back with pride on the one year I won the trophy. There’s nothing sweeter than acing a test you didn’t even study for.VulcanMold is a plastic molds and Injection Molding manufacturer in china.
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