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Every year in August and early September, the Boards grow silent (well, except for me ).

Reasons are many.

Football is starting up and many are dual fantasy players.

The surprises in baseball are now not surprises, but part of the scenery.

The dog days are here.



None of these maladies affect me.

Although football was once a passion of mine and got me into fantasy sports, it has more misses than hits for me.

Fantasy football itself, at least in my mind, has gone beyond 50% luck.

For me, that changes the game from one of skill to a game of chance.

But, this isn't about ragging on football or to discuss the percentage of luck involved with fantasy sports, no, this is about going to a sports psychologists to get fantasy baseball out of my mind.

To live like others live.

To have fun in the company of others without thinking if my pitcher is getting bombed or if I made the right move at 3b with a speed guy and not power.



So, I went to the Doc.

He decided after listening to my story to play a game of word association.

Here's how it went-



Family-

"We are family, Pirates."



Kids-

"Steve Strasburg, Bryce Harper"



Christmas-

"The Draft"



Circle-

"Change"



Square-

"It up"



Diamond-

"Field"



One-

"Fastball"



Two-

"Curve"

...."No wait, Lets play two"



Rip Van Winkle-

"Sleeper, but I hate that term!"



Lincoln-

"Brad"



Washington

"Claudell"



Bush-

"League"



The Doc looked at me.

"You used that free coupon in the paper for our first session, didn'y you?"



"Of course, Doc, you think I'd pay for this!?

Fun game though"



"I'm afraid we're going to need 25 sessions at the least to help you with your problem."



"Problem? I never thought of it as a problem.

I just wanna live like others if only for a day."



"That should manifest itself the day the season ends, right?"



"Heck no!

That's the day the Pre-Mature E-Draftulation draft starts for 2012!"



The Doc pulled out my paperwork and stamped it with one of the five imprinters on his desk. He handed me the paperwork.

"Get out of my office."



I left.

I left thinking that maybe the way I am, is the way I am.

Mathemeticians are enamored with pie or 3.14.......

I think of it as a good E.R.A.



Every Sunday, pastors preach about what's wrong or right.

I think about Chien-Ming Wang and David Wright.



I don't know whether it was the 'talk' with the Doc or not, but by the time I got home, I was ok with myself once again.

It's just the way I am.



I put my keys and paperwork from the Doc on the table.

I saw the imprint that the Doc had made on the paperwork.



INCURABLE



Smart guy that Doc.

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS:

Although football was once a passion of mine and got me into fantasy sports, it has more misses than hits for me.

Fantasy football itself, at least in my mind, has gone beyond 50% luck.

For me, that changes the game from one of skill to a game of chance.

[/QB]I agree 100%. Football got me into this world of fantasy sports, but I just can't muster the enthusiasm for it anymore. I still participate in my home league b/c it is a family tradition (hell we call it the Family League), but it just seems like I'm......faking it ?



Its funny you equated the (baseball) draft w/ Christmas, I feel that way too...and I used to feel that way about football. When my brother gave me the opportunity to join his work baseball lge back in '03 I NEVER would've imagined that baseball would replace football as my favorite fantasy sport.



I hope I never lose that loving feeling for fantasy baseball

Originally posted by rockitsauce:

quote:Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS:

Although football was once a passion of mine and got me into fantasy sports, it has more misses than hits for me.

Fantasy football itself, at least in my mind, has gone beyond 50% luck.

For me, that changes the game from one of skill to a game of chance.

I agree 100%. Football got me into this world of fantasy sports, but I just can't muster the enthusiasm for it anymore. I still participate in my home league b/c it is a family tradition (hell we call it the Family League), but it just seems like I'm......faking it ?



Its funny you equated the (baseball) draft w/ Christmas, I feel that way too...and I used to feel that way about football. When my brother gave me the opportunity to join his work baseball lge back in '03 I NEVER would've imagined that baseball would replace football as my favorite fantasy sport.



I hope I never lose that loving feeling for fantasy baseball [/QB][/QUOTE]Last night, our internet went poof!, an hour before the deadline.

I had gotten all ther important moves in for each team, but there was one more small move I wanted to make. I waited.

20 Minutes till the deadline and still no access, I called our daughter. She wasn't home. I tried the other daughter and then a friend, no luck.



My wife quizzed that if this wasn't a big deal, why was I making calls.

I told her it was karma. Karma was telling me that I should try everything to get this little move done since everything seemed to be working against me.

That Doc would understand....INCURABLE!



Five minutes till deadline and I decided to call Greg. We have a 'package deal' with our internet company and that may have come back to bite me in the ass. Because now, our phone was down too.

I'm one of the few people in the world between the age of 18 and 60 who doesn't own a cell phone.

My wife has a 'work only' cell phone and I asked her to find it. Yeah, that's how often it is used. Once she had me take it on a small trip and I couldn't even figure out how to open the damned thing!

By the time she did find it, it was five minutes past the deadline.

I decided to call Greg anyway. If I didn't try everything, I just know that karma would kick my ass.



Greg answered and was in the middle of a football draft. I told him the problem and he reminded me what time it was (five minutes past the deadline) and even checked the Boards to see if the problem was NFBC related.It wasn't.

As he took Drew Brees, I told him thanks anyway, no big deal, and that I had to try.



The move WAS a small one.

Salvador Perez for Jason Varitek.

Quit laughing.

I said quit now!

It was for a team that lost Buster Posey.



I can rest easy knowing this week that if Salvador Perez goes off on a wild spree this week, it wasn't meant to happen for my team.

And Dough isn't lying....the small trip he brought his wife's cell phone on was when we met for lunch one day in July.



We're sitting there and a phone starts ringing. I'm pale white and in shock when I realize Dan is actually in possession of said cell phone. After about 4 rings he pulls it out of his pocket. It rings another time or two and he is just kinda looking at it very dumbfounded. It stops ringing and I'm looking at him like 'Dan, you going to answer your phone?'. He looks at it, looks at me, and says 'It's my wife's phone. I don't know how to answer it.".



If nothing else to me, it was a treat to actually see him REALLY not be familar with these things people call cell phones. I figured he's lived this long without them, why the heck should I teach him anything about them!!!

My version of "incurable":



Birds - "Yount"

Weather - "Stormin Gorman"

Bed - "Ben Sheets"

Favre - "Geoff Jenkins"

Music - "Sal Bando"

Animal - "Moose Haas"

Number - "Sixto Lezcano"

Toy - "Teddy Higuera"

Chicken - "Cecil Cooper"

Strong - "Ryan Braun"

Whimpy - "Ricky Weeks"

Card Game - "Bob Uecker"



Always enjoy your posts Dough!