Just to add to that whole baseball is regional...

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

Fantasy sports is the biggest waste of time I can think of. It doesn't make you a voracious NFL fan. It only makes you a stat junkie who tries to forecast who will score, throw or catch the most touchdowns. Who gets to kick the most field goals. What defense might play well that day. It has nothing to do with winning or losing an actual game. Your player might have a great game statistically, but their team can still lose the game. You can be a fan of one team and have a fantasy player on one team competing against each other. Which do you want to do well? You don't have to know a bunch of silly stats to be a big fan. I know a few people that know little about football and do well in fantasy leagues. Fantasy football has become one of the biggest wastes of man work hours. Why do you think companies are having domains such as these blocked?

I agree that one should not be playing fantasy sports on the company dime. I certainly was not condoning using company computers and work hours to do so.

I am a voracious NFL fan, college football fan, and baseball fan. I am not a stat junkie, but I do like to play fantasy football. It is only one of several factors which make me an avid fan, not the only factor. Are you ignoring the part where I said that I watch each and every available NFL game telecast in my area? You merely singled out one facet of my comments and are concentrating on it.

I know the game and the players and have known them since long before fantasy football was ever invented. I have been a huge NFL (and AFL) fan my whole life. I have watched every Super Bowl ever played. I watched Hank Stram's Chiefs matriculate the ball down the field against the Packers.

Which do I want to do well? That's the dilemma. It's also what makes it fun. I often must root for a player to do well against my team. I do happen to own LaDainian Tomlinson in both of my leagues. I did well in the draft and I'm doing just fine. Brady is working out pretty well for me too. This week I had 119 points in the NFL league and 112 in the ESPN league. By far the most of any team in either league.

[UMP25]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

For the record the baseball post season I worked this past season the weather was in the 70s and the sun was out pretty much every game even during those Sectional semi-final games that were after 4:00. Even the Sectional Final the sun shined the entire day and it was quite hot.

Note the time of the year to which you're referring. The greater majority of the baseball season is played during a time of the year that, quite literally, sucks weatherwise around here--that being April and early May. You're being illogical, as usual, by focusing on the traditionally warmest part of the season, that being the postseason.

This is my 30th year of umpiring, and I can honestly say the spring was the worst I have ever had for games lost due to cold and/or snow. I lost 17 games in April alone--17! Heck, I had several D-I games wiped due to cold, and we know that D-I games don't get banged unless they have to. And this was in April. Heck, I awoke the morning of April frickin' 11th to find three inches of snow on the ground. My Easter break saw 4 of its days completely wiped due to snow and slush and cold, wet conditions--not anywhere near your "hot" June days.

This takes a toll on baseball, a sport NOT intended to be played under such conditions. It has become so serious that the NCAA beginning in 2008 pushed back the start of its college's schedules to accommodate the colder schools' weather troubles and schedules.

[UMP25]

I wear long sleeves more often in April and early May than I do in early June, bub.

[UMP25]

Uh, last time I checked, our high school baseball's postseason is in June, son. Perhaps you're in the southern hemisphere.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by UMP25

Note the time of the year to which you're referring. The greater majority of the baseball season is played during a time of the year that, quite literally, sucks weatherwise around here--that being April and early May. You're being illogical, as usual, by focusing on the traditionally warmest part of the season, that being the postseason.

This is my 30th year of umpiring, and I can honestly say the spring was the worst I have ever had for games lost due to cold and/or snow. I lost 17 games in April alone--17! Heck, I had several D-I games wiped due to cold, and we know that D-I games don't get banged unless they have to. And this was in April. Heck, I awoke the morning of April frickin' 11th to find three inches of snow on the ground. My Easter break saw 4 of its days completely wiped due to snow and slush and cold, wet conditions--not anywhere near your "hot" June days.

This takes a toll on baseball, a sport NOT intended to be played under such conditions. It has become so serious that the NCAA beginning in 2008 pushed back the start of its college's schedules to accommodate the colder schools' weather troubles and schedules.

Yep, it is all the weather's fault. The interest or excitement (lack of interest or excitement) has nothing to do with it.

Peace

[UMP25]

Well, if you had an ounce of simple meteorological and mathematical knowledge, you'd understand. But I won't hold my breath.