Good V....Good Va....Nice Pick!
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:02 pm
Your attention please-
This is a post concerning the word 'value'. You may want to just leave right now and take the women and kids with you.
For those of the strong of stomach persuasion, please continue.....
I am drafting in a fantasy football league.
Only one person 'knows' me in the draft.
I don't know the rest of the names from Adam.
Anyway, we're drafting in the bottom of the sixth round. I take Allen Hurns.
Then, I see it on the chat board....good value
Two words.
Two well-meaning words.
Two words that drove me out of my gourd. And I don't even have a gourd.
I didn't respond. I'm not a football guy. I didn't want to make a mountain out of his well-intentioned molehill.
Still, it stuck with me.
I growled at the wife.
I mentally kicked the dog.
Value.
Value.....
when, OH WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALIZE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO value before a draft?
Probably never.
Radio people use the word constantly.
More than a value a minute on some shows.
There's no value in listening to those shows.
Value is well-intentioned, just like that drafters...'"good value".
Back in the day, we didn't have "good value".
We had "Nice pick".
"Nice pick is so much better.
Think of your self on a car lot.
You pick a car that you like.
A friend says "Nice Pick" and you are happy.
Saying "Good value" means something completely different.
It means that you are not receieving a friends opinion, but maybe a congregate opinion.
When I pick a car or a player, I'd rather hear the opinion of one over what the world thinks.
It's my car or player, not theirs.
Those picking Matt Harvey in the sixth round this, got 'good value'.
So did those that picked McCutchen in the second round.
And those that drafted AJ Pollock in the middle of the second round were just giddy with their 'good value'.
IT'S MEANINGLESS!
Value is exposed when put into use.
Until then, 'value' is just a word.
A well-meaning, well-intentioned word, in this case, formed by the many opinions of drafters.
Sharks know.
They know the guppies will listen to talk radio and to the constant bias created by adp.
"Omigod! You took Mike Napoli when Lucas Duda was still on the board!"
Poor sombitch.
Now, he's winning a league title while the Duda owner is whistling Zip-a dee- doo dah (Duda)
Sometimes, we do get bargains. A player we covet that has been going in the fourth round is still there for us in the fifth.
Take him!
You liked him!
But don't take a player that's there just because 'he's a value'!
If doing that, you haven't studied long enough.
You'll be like the monkey.
The monkey story is what I've told my kids about sex, but it applies here with 'value'.
One day a happy go lucky monkey was walking. He came upon some railroad tracks.
He looked down the tracks and saw a train coming.
He decided to back up and play a game with the train. He would run across the tracks as fast as he could right before the train arrived on that part of the tracks.
He ran as fast as could.
He beat the train.
But, he looked back and saw a small piece of his tail on the tracks.
He went back to pick it up.
When he did, another train came and smashed his head killing him.
Moral of the story: Never lose your head over a piece of ass
Or in this case: Value
This is a post concerning the word 'value'. You may want to just leave right now and take the women and kids with you.
For those of the strong of stomach persuasion, please continue.....
I am drafting in a fantasy football league.
Only one person 'knows' me in the draft.
I don't know the rest of the names from Adam.
Anyway, we're drafting in the bottom of the sixth round. I take Allen Hurns.
Then, I see it on the chat board....good value
Two words.
Two well-meaning words.
Two words that drove me out of my gourd. And I don't even have a gourd.
I didn't respond. I'm not a football guy. I didn't want to make a mountain out of his well-intentioned molehill.
Still, it stuck with me.
I growled at the wife.
I mentally kicked the dog.
Value.
Value.....
when, OH WHEN WILL PEOPLE REALIZE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO value before a draft?
Probably never.
Radio people use the word constantly.
More than a value a minute on some shows.
There's no value in listening to those shows.
Value is well-intentioned, just like that drafters...'"good value".
Back in the day, we didn't have "good value".
We had "Nice pick".
"Nice pick is so much better.
Think of your self on a car lot.
You pick a car that you like.
A friend says "Nice Pick" and you are happy.
Saying "Good value" means something completely different.
It means that you are not receieving a friends opinion, but maybe a congregate opinion.
When I pick a car or a player, I'd rather hear the opinion of one over what the world thinks.
It's my car or player, not theirs.
Those picking Matt Harvey in the sixth round this, got 'good value'.
So did those that picked McCutchen in the second round.
And those that drafted AJ Pollock in the middle of the second round were just giddy with their 'good value'.
IT'S MEANINGLESS!
Value is exposed when put into use.
Until then, 'value' is just a word.
A well-meaning, well-intentioned word, in this case, formed by the many opinions of drafters.
Sharks know.
They know the guppies will listen to talk radio and to the constant bias created by adp.
"Omigod! You took Mike Napoli when Lucas Duda was still on the board!"
Poor sombitch.
Now, he's winning a league title while the Duda owner is whistling Zip-a dee- doo dah (Duda)
Sometimes, we do get bargains. A player we covet that has been going in the fourth round is still there for us in the fifth.
Take him!
You liked him!
But don't take a player that's there just because 'he's a value'!
If doing that, you haven't studied long enough.
You'll be like the monkey.
The monkey story is what I've told my kids about sex, but it applies here with 'value'.
One day a happy go lucky monkey was walking. He came upon some railroad tracks.
He looked down the tracks and saw a train coming.
He decided to back up and play a game with the train. He would run across the tracks as fast as he could right before the train arrived on that part of the tracks.
He ran as fast as could.
He beat the train.
But, he looked back and saw a small piece of his tail on the tracks.
He went back to pick it up.
When he did, another train came and smashed his head killing him.
Moral of the story: Never lose your head over a piece of ass
Or in this case: Value