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Ignominious defeat
To open this week’s installment of “As the Purple Stallions Turn,” let’s hear from Ladd Biro, wiseacre fantasy football expert (there’s no other kind of FF expert, actually) at the fantasy site of The Sporting News. Take it away, Ladd:
Fantasy football can stress you out; but it also can save your life. We all know the first is true, but I learned this weekend the latter is as well.
One of my league-mates developed a severe case of diverticulitis early Sunday morning which required an emergency procedure to remove part of his colon, leaving him with a semi-colon (Ba-dum-pum). The first words he spoke to his wife upon regaining consciousness were, “How’s my fantasy team doing?” I’m not making this up.
This is a man who understands his priorities.
I share this with you so that you can admire my relative calm after having lost this weekend to something called Westbrook36. It gets better: my team’s wholesale haplessness gave Westbrook36 its first victory of the season. Yay me. Suffice it to say that I got merely average overall production from my players, while W36 got player-of-the-week performances. It was like running into a buzzsaw, only without the subtlety.
I dare to say that things look more promising this week, as the Stallions take on MDSkinz, the team belonging to the man hisself, Oliver Willis of blogging fame (and our league commish). An appalling number of OW’s players are off during this first bye week of the season; he’ll be hard-pressed to find substitutes. If I can’t take advantage of this, I’ll…stamp my foot in frustration, I guess.
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Upon further review…I win!
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Glass-half-full analysis: four teams are in worse shape than the Stallions! This is the flip-side of a “deep” league.
I think its safe you’ll murder me this week, unless Phillip Rivers throws for 900,000 yards.
Bitty: That’s more like a “glass-quarter-full” take, but the point is made. :-p
Oliver: As long as you’re playing the Stallions, you’ve got a fighting chance. This is going to be one long season…but I now see the inherent interest in deep leagues. Aggravating, but definitely not boring.