As I sit here a few hours before the Bears game, I am focused on my fantasy baseball team. In the year of my first auction draft, I finished #1 overall in our 12 team league. After an 0-2 start, I went 16-3 the rest of the way to overtake the first place team. He had the best team all year until injuries started to ravage his squad. I avoided the injuries most of the year, that is, until the playoffs began.
So this is where I’m going to start complaining… The first victim was Starlin Castro. Thankfully, this happened in my bye week, so I was able to replace him. Mookie Betts, who I had on my team earlier in the year, was welcomed back into the clubhouse. At least he’s been playing in every game. Next was Henderson Alvarez. He’s been solid all year for me until this oblique injury. I actually used my last move on him this week to pick him back up, after he was announced to start Friday at Philly. He pitched very well, and got me some much needed points.
Playoffs started for me this week, and I was in pretty decent shape. Then, it was announced that David Wright was going to be done for the year. Next, came Dustin Pedroia… surgery… out. Next Brock Holt went to see a concussion specialist, while Jorge Soler spent the weekend away from the team to welcome the birth of his child. Meanwhile, Travis D’Arnaud nurses a minor wrist injury. You got to be kidding me right? Am I going to be able to survive this?
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I have to share my ultimate screw job in fantasy sports. It was the Tony Romo injury in the fantasy football championship game. It cost me the championship, plain and simple. He played the first series of the game, then was out with an injury. I got 0 points from my QB. QBs typically average 30 points in our league on a weekly basis. I lost by 20 points. It’s something I’ll never forget. This team that beat me hasn’t sniffed the playoffs in any other years in fantasy football, OR any other fantasy league period. This team, is the one that I sit across from Monday-Friday. This is the same team I’ll be playing this week (oh by the way, my QB who was RG3 this week got hurt too… is there some kind of curse going on here?) I can’t forget it even if I tried. The worst thing about it, was that I left other points on my bench at other positions. So, yeah, the injury sunk me, but if I had made a few other decisions on my starting lineup, some pretty risky, I would have STILL won. Chalk it up, and now I have to sit here still wanting my first fantasy football championship in this league. (Sidenote: the team that beat me DID lose their first 2 draft picks to injury that year. So, to make it that far under those circumstances in football, I guess he deserved it in a way too).
I hate losing. There’s no other way to express that. Another “bad fantasy beat” was in baseball a few years back. I was the best team in our league by far, and had my lowest output of the year in week 1 of the playoffs to get knocked out. We all remember our bad beats. LIke the time I “lost” the fantasy basketball league on a tie, in the year AFTER I won the tite. I thought you had to beat the champ to take his title? OK, enough whining. I’ll put the violin away for now, and just enjoy the fact that this time I avoided a bad beat, and will play in that championship game. Yeah, I’ll enjoy the Bears game tonight (hopefully), but this is another reason why baseball is not over for me quite yet. I’ll be playing close attention to baseball… at least for one more week.
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