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Footballguy
Yeah, since baseball and hockey passed me by and there was no real way to catch up without massive investments of time, I only have football. I can't imagine what is going on with hockey and basketball right now in the minds of guys who spent a ton of hours on this stuff. That's just a real bummer, secondary though it is to how much worse this viral outbreak and spread could be. Thanking lucky stars every day, to be sure.I'm curious to see what happens if they start knocking out weeks during the season. Fantasy football panic will ensue. Hosting sites like Yahoo better be flexible.
I know that fantasy sports takes a backseat during this pandemic. I've got 2 hockey leagues on hold to see if we will continue the regular season or just end the standings as is. I convinced my fantasy baseball league to push back the draft from March. Baseball usually carries me over until football season and I hate playing it once football starts. If baseball starts in July, I don't even want to do it anymore since it will really coincide with football. I've already backed out of other baseball leagues luckily.
Then there is Daily sports. I have friends texting me about using certain Korean baseball players. GTFO. I don't even want to think about that. I have daily fantasy out of my system now. Not sure that I'll go back. Norman Chad is getting killed for his we need less sports article today. I don't know. I'm not sure that he's totally wrong. I don't need to play daily fantasy right now and it doesn't feel so bad. It's pretty time consuming.
Anyway, like you say, maybe it's all for naught. Maybe there won't be sports. I still think greed will rule the day.
I agree about daily sports and the like. I'm not sure whether or not my view is colored by not really gambling at all anymore, so there's that sort of cognitive bias I'm bringing to the table. Your choice of words that it's "out of my system now. Not sure that I'll go back" doesn't sound like a jingle for the product. I'd bet you'd win, but the rest of us that aren't using high-level data gathering and appropriation are at a massive disadvantage, it seems, to guys who do this for a living. The casual player is eminently ####ed, both in the dailies and season-long comps like FBGs.
I'll have to check out Norman Chad's article. That interests me for some reason. At first blush, poker guys seem a bit dour, like they're a miserable lot, but as it gets a little deeper you realize they're also probably some of the more interesting guys you'd ever meet. But they have a tendency towards expressions that are pragmatic and cynical, so it seems by either word or by coverage.
Lastly, and I think I know how you meant the phrase colloquially, I don't think it's all for naught. I think there's a greater goal. I hope everybody does the right thing by each other, by the polis, by the individual. If that means not playing, I hope we don't see it as weakness. If it means not giving in to unfounded fear, then play. But right now we don't know which it is. So then, we wait.