It's 2-0 in the Third Inning

[DOUGHBOYS]

Most of my friends don't know fantasy baseball. They'll ask, 'how you doin' with that fantasy thing?'' Then shuffle their feet hoping the answer isn't long. In a short time frame, I try to explain the NFBC to them. Telling them that the worlds best players need only apply.
I fail.
To them, fantasy baseball is a world of geekdom. A place where it is one step above playing Monopoly. Between chess and checkers, we're checkers. As a collective, they don't see the draw. To them, it's enough to know (and I'll use Rockies here, because of my locale and most of my friends rooting interest) that their Rockies won the game. Most don't want to know how or why. They are fans in the worst degree. They have 162 books in front of them and they'd rather skip to the end of each one to see the outcome.
Where is the fun in that?
It's like waking up from being plastered the night before and seeing a beautiful girl leaving out the front door saying, "Thanks for the great sex!"
The sex was had. Chalk one up for you. But the experience was nullified in that the act can't even be played out in your mind.
Maybe you'll brag about the sex or the Rockies victory the next day, both without a clue as to what happened.
To me, these are the folks that deserve the shifting of the feet or the eye roll.
When without a radio during the season, which is seldom, somebody will update me with a score, 'Rockies 2-0 in the third.
I'll reply, 'Francis pitching, right, and how'd the Rox score?'
Most of the time met with, 'I don't know'.

These baseball 'fans' look at us as 'trekkies'. Taking something and moving it into another dimension.
Explaining to them that I'm in the NFBC among the World's best players is of little use to them. Maybe making me look more of a dork than before uttering that sentence.
Being one of the best fantasy players has as much interest to them as being one of the best Scrabble players.

I don't try to explain the NFBC anymore. I don't even explain fantasy baseball anymore.
When asked why I have a portable radio, I won't tell them that it's XM Radio capable of getting every Major League game so that I can keep up with players, stats, and favorite announcers.
I'll simply tell them it is so I can listen to the baseball game and tell them that the Rockies are up 2-0 in the third inning.
Hoping against hope, that someday, somebody will ask who's pitching and how'd they score the runs.

[Edwards Kings]

These baseball 'fans' look at us as 'trekkies'. Taking something and moving it into another dimension.

Funny you should mention that. This guy was in my league in 2004. Childs didn't like his draft either.