Real Ramblings.... Or, Just Writing What I'm Thinking

[DOUGHBOYS]

I'm a baseball guy. I like football, sure, but baseball is where my heart is.
As far as fantasy baseball, it is 365 days for me. I do not go through one day without a thought of fantasy baseball, I don't.
And if reading this, you're probably much the same.
The game so coincides with regular baseball and has the intricate strategies that it'll keep my mind going like the metal ball in a Pinball machine.

That said, I share a fantasy football team with my son-in-law. A free one.
I can't play fantasy football for money anymore. I love the game, and I know its been said time and time again, but the luck factor is too high to risk good money.
Even with injury aside, really, who scores a touchdown is all luck. An offensive coach can select three different plays from the one yard line involving a rb, te, or wr, on first down, second, and third down, and we pat ourselves on the back when it is our player he selects.
But, this isn't about luck and fantasy football, so I'll get off that track.

Our fantasy football team went into games yesterday, 0-4 with the second most points scored in our league. We won, only because we played the one team who had less points than us this week.
My son-in-law called very excited. I tried to match his excitement, but couldn't. I just find it a flawed game when compared to fantasy baseball.
What football does have over baseball may be the game itself. It is a game built for kids of today. It has smashmouth, it has all or nothing plays, and the momentum can change on a dime.

Where football and baseball are meeting is in the specialization and utilization of players talents.
The third down back is like a platoon hitter in baseball.
The nickel defense is like outfielders playing back and third basemen guarding the line in the ninth inning.
A blitzing defense is like playing all the infielders in.

Quarterbacks have it all over pitchers though.
Even though they throw a lot,we never hear of a quarterback having Tommy John or would it have a different name cuz it's football?
Can you imagine pulling Tom Brady cuz a coach with a clicker says he's had 60 tosses and we don't want to jeopardize him for next week?
Quarterbacks would never think of leaving a game.
There's no paternity leave and there's certainly no going to the locker room and watching the end of the game with a bucket of chicken and mug of beer.

While quarterbacks look better than their counterpart, the pitcher, a running back could look the opposite.
I watched a running back make a five yard gain, then furiously waved his hand as if too tired to take another step.
Even plumpy Pablo Sandoval stays in a game after hitting a double. Sure, he'd like to wave his hand and ask for a runner, but the penalty of being out of the game for the rest of the day is too severe.

I don't know how I got into comparing football with baseball, but I'll stop.
I don't even know where I was going with this piece, except to say that fantasy baseball is sex for the mind.
In May and Novenmber.
Not a wham-bam- thank you ma'am sex like fantasy football.
It's a mind sex that needs a doctor because it lasts well over four hours and involves a lot more than one partner.
It has 180 days of light during the season. 185 days of dark during the off season. But never sleeps.
During those 180 days of light, everything changes on a daily basis.
Those 180 days are 'War', the 185 days of darkness are 'Peace'
If playing fantasy baseball for sixty years, it It is like reading a wonderful book that never has an ending, but 60 remarkable climaxes.