Turn On the Radio!

[DOUGHBOYS]

As recently as last year, I was hooked on 'Live Scoring'. I liked watching the effects of one home run for my side and what it did to my nearest competitor. At the same time, I got some kind of deviant pleasure out of watching the same thing happen to me, when a rival garnered a victory or had a home run.
It's the pull and push of the fantasy season right before our eyes.
Sweet Misery.

I quit watching live scoring, realizing that the players were being 'unscouted' by me. I was becoming to reliant on Numerish.
Well, that and my wife yelling at me to get my nose out of the computer.
The first explanation sounds a lot better though, so we'll go with that.

Buddies and friends of mine follow live scoring religiously. I know a guy that puts a six pack on ice, gets his pipe, and settles in for a nice evening of those numbers he hopes will help carry his team to victory.
Another buddy of mine has teams in CBS Leagues and somehow follows his NFBC team there.
What seemed impossible just a few short years ago, the act of following our teams up to the minute, is now taken for granted.

Let's face it. The NFBC has dropped the ball in regards to 'Live scoring' this year.
Big time.
We were promised an overall live scoring by the end of the year.
What we received was slow and spotty live scoring with hopes of a new live scoring system at the end of the season that is still working out kinks.

At the same time, we all know Greg.
We know he won't stand for this. He has probably too much hope for the technical side of things.
He can only take the word of folks working on live scoring and pass that word on to us.
A messenger killed is Greg.

The helluvit is though, that every little problem and every large problem that has come the way of the NFBC in the last 10 years, Greg has been victorious.
I have no doubt that he will kick live scoring's ass.
Compared to the Fanball era, live scoring should be a walk in the park.

Until then, I know what some of you folks are going through.
The NFBC is the engine that takes you along for that six month ride.
At the same time, 'Live Scoring' is the radio for that trip.
And a trip that long gets a little tedious and boring without being entertained.
I have no doubt that next year the radio will be fixed and Greg will be on to lesser problems.

[DOUGHBOYS]

...And the radio goes dead right as 'More than a Feeling' is about to hit my air guitar solo.....
Maddening.