Noise
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:20 am
I'm hesitant to write this as the message is not really about fantasy baseball.
But, I'll post it anyway, just because
Most of us in fantasy baseball are common sense type of folks. We need to keep our wits about us as strategize and grind our way through 27 weeks of the long baseball season.
Each of us have our own individual traits.
We could like a player in our minds so much that we will keep increasing bids leading up to the FAAB deadline.
So much so that we clearly over pay. But we don't care. We got our man.
It is that individuality, that 'Me against the world' process that is so engaging in our hobby.
What is this post leading to?
I'm sick and tired of noise.
Noise from both outside and inside the baseball world.
I made the mistake of watching National news the other day.
I hate real world news. Always bad, always depressing.
The media tries to one up each other in painting the worse picture of our country and the world.
I saw protesters from two sides marching, yelling, screaming at police and others.
Over a statue and what it represented.
That statue has been there for over 100 years.
Nobody cared.
100 years of folks marched by the statue, stopped to look at it, enjoyed the artwork and moved on.
Now, labeled a symbol, the statue looks down at folks and wonders what the Hell it did to piss off so many people after 100 years.
Today's crowd reads or watches things on social media and has the need to act. A little like we get swayed by that player that we over bid on.
The difference being that if nobody else shows up at the statue, they will simply go home, disappointed.
One man protests went out in the 60's.
They have the need to act as a crowd, a mob. And it must be done in a spotlight with camera's.
No individuality.
'Take me out to the protests, take me out to the crowd.
Buy me a gun and some knuckles of brass,
I won't get home till I've kicked some ass
And it's root, root for my side,
If we don't win, it's not a shame
For it's one, two, three bouts of stupidity at the old protesting game!
In the baseball world, I got sick to death of hearing about Aaron Judge.
I loved watching the guy, but hated hearing all the fuzzy wuzzies about him.
"All Rise!" made me want to puke.
Yankees players make the most noise. And when a player like Judge has the start that he did, the noise really hurts our ears.
Even now, Giancarlo Stanton has hit 50 home runs, but the sound of his 50 home runs is like a whisper compared to the shouting about Judge.
We get bombarded over and over again with the same news. So much so that my wife now knows who Aaron Judge is.
That is like me knowing who the hottest dress designer is.
She doesn't have a clue who Giancarlo Stanton is.
The Judge noise so loud that it spills into non-baseball worlds.
Folks poke fun at our hobby.
They accuse us of not having much common sense.
That what we do is trivial.
They call us nerds and wannabe's.
Those same people can be found cursing at a statue.
And somehow, we're the one's with little common sense.
But, I'll post it anyway, just because
Most of us in fantasy baseball are common sense type of folks. We need to keep our wits about us as strategize and grind our way through 27 weeks of the long baseball season.
Each of us have our own individual traits.
We could like a player in our minds so much that we will keep increasing bids leading up to the FAAB deadline.
So much so that we clearly over pay. But we don't care. We got our man.
It is that individuality, that 'Me against the world' process that is so engaging in our hobby.
What is this post leading to?
I'm sick and tired of noise.
Noise from both outside and inside the baseball world.
I made the mistake of watching National news the other day.
I hate real world news. Always bad, always depressing.
The media tries to one up each other in painting the worse picture of our country and the world.
I saw protesters from two sides marching, yelling, screaming at police and others.
Over a statue and what it represented.
That statue has been there for over 100 years.
Nobody cared.
100 years of folks marched by the statue, stopped to look at it, enjoyed the artwork and moved on.
Now, labeled a symbol, the statue looks down at folks and wonders what the Hell it did to piss off so many people after 100 years.
Today's crowd reads or watches things on social media and has the need to act. A little like we get swayed by that player that we over bid on.
The difference being that if nobody else shows up at the statue, they will simply go home, disappointed.
One man protests went out in the 60's.
They have the need to act as a crowd, a mob. And it must be done in a spotlight with camera's.
No individuality.
'Take me out to the protests, take me out to the crowd.
Buy me a gun and some knuckles of brass,
I won't get home till I've kicked some ass
And it's root, root for my side,
If we don't win, it's not a shame
For it's one, two, three bouts of stupidity at the old protesting game!
In the baseball world, I got sick to death of hearing about Aaron Judge.
I loved watching the guy, but hated hearing all the fuzzy wuzzies about him.
"All Rise!" made me want to puke.
Yankees players make the most noise. And when a player like Judge has the start that he did, the noise really hurts our ears.
Even now, Giancarlo Stanton has hit 50 home runs, but the sound of his 50 home runs is like a whisper compared to the shouting about Judge.
We get bombarded over and over again with the same news. So much so that my wife now knows who Aaron Judge is.
That is like me knowing who the hottest dress designer is.
She doesn't have a clue who Giancarlo Stanton is.
The Judge noise so loud that it spills into non-baseball worlds.
Folks poke fun at our hobby.
They accuse us of not having much common sense.
That what we do is trivial.
They call us nerds and wannabe's.
Those same people can be found cursing at a statue.
And somehow, we're the one's with little common sense.
Well...except for the "hat hair"!