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Yahoo Fantasy Baseball
free (not plus) league id# 181530
password 88237
league name is ShadowMLB
rotisserie, 8 batters, 5 bench (batters and/or pitchers), 8 pitchers
35 moves, 20 trades
live draft on March 29
20 team max.

There was lots of interest in the NHL league last October and I thought I'd gauge the interest in baseball. It's fun and interesting. Sign up quick if you are interested it might fill up quick. 'Nuf.
 
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fantasy sports are so boring, i mean its literaly sucking the fun out of sports, you get these guys obsessed with stats no matter how small, and for the amount of work you put into it i mean really do you get an equal pay off, at least with gambling on sports its a one time committment and you are done, but this just drags out
 
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hammertm said:
I agree, Very long season and with 25 players and only 35 moves ......... that isn't right. We have 100 moves in a 82 game season league that you set up for hockey, so if you increase this one to unlimited or well over a 100 i will jump in.
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Just like the hockey pool I am very flexible. Your wishes are my command. Changes made ;)
 
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scouser1 said:
fantasy sports are so boring, i mean its literaly sucking the fun out of sports, you get these guys obsessed with stats no matter how small, and for the amount of work you put into it i mean really do you get an equal pay off, at least with gambling on sports its a one time committment and you are done, but this just drags out
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With all the reports of the low TV ratings of the recent Winter Olympics, Kornheiser and Wilbon on PTI had an amusing suggestion, which is there should be fantasy Olympics leagues. It seems that every other person nowadays is in a fantasy league of some kind, and those people do tend to watch sports, even if it is for them just to root for one guy.

But scouser has a point--I participate in a fantasy NBA league, and that seems to last forever. I used to do baseball too, and it is a hefty time commitment. Inevitably, half the teams fall out of contention after two months, and those guys lose interest. And there is always at least one nut job who seems to have time for nothing else but tending to his team. And then there is the annoying guy who always wants to make trades with you. He'll suggest about 30 trades, none of which make any sense for you. I think I've had enough of it.
 
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Sounds good to me, I love the fantasy baseball (and football, and basketball and even hockey).

But I read an fun piece today where Malcolm Gladwell had this to day:
"I used to do rotisserie baseball for a few years, and loved it...I worried, though, that it began to erode my sense of team. I mean, the great appeal of watching sports is that you have a commitment to a team, and the players become secondary players in that love affair. I fell for the Buffalo Bills when they had Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas and went to four Super Bowls, and I'm still in love with the Buffalo Bills even though not a single vestige of that original team remains; even though, in fact, the very thing that attracted me to the Bills in the first place -- that thrilling offense -- has completely disappeared. Sports team loyalty is really an extraordinary act of unconditional love...But where's the continuity? The uniforms change. The stadiums change. The owners and players and coaches and styles of play change. All that's constant is some ineffable and fragile sense of the team as a meaningful psychological entity. Now fantasy leagues come along and allow us to junk that concept as well. So I worry. Of course, it's conceivable I've over-thought this. I've been known to do that in the past."

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060303
 
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Malcolm Gladwell is a smart guy and has written some good books.

But this little monologue of his has been said about a zillion times before. With free agency and incomprehensible salaries, fans have become more and more distanced from professional athletes and teams. If the emergence of fantasy leagues has diluted those allegiances even more, that is still a drop in the bucket compared to those other factors.
 
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Well put, well put.

And if I may say, fantasy sports actually made me into a basketball fan. I have always been a huge baseball fan (and fantasy baseball hasn't hurt that at all) but never really got into basketball until I started playing it myself, fantasy-wise. I started reading about it to make my team better and thus got to know the players, what to look for and whatnot. And now I watch it for the pure enjoyment of watching, while still rooting for my fasntasy team's roster of players (Shawn Marion is carrying me this season).

Hey, it's fun.
 
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I agree, it can be fun, and when I started doing fantasy baseball, I always did well and finished in the money. The last few years, not so much. Maybe if I finished in the money more often, I'd find it fun again.
 
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Draft isn't until March 29. Lots of time and usually people don't join until the bitter end. If we don't get, at least, 10-12 then I'll withdraw the league. With only a few people it'd be like playing poker with only two people - not fun at all. I thought it would be difficult - not a such interest in baseball as there is in hockey in Canada. Besides it's March 3rd give people a chance to shake the snow from their boots and get into the spring swing of things. We'll see.
 
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now if only someone can explain cricket to me without it taking 3 hours all I see is a ball being hit and a bunch of English, Indian, South African, Australian guys running around :D
 
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Bringing this up again. Any more interest? Seems like baseball isn't the draw that hockey and football had this year.
 
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I would, but I was already up on three when this subject came up. Four? That's just a tad too much :(
 
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