![]() Love it! Been playing fantasy football since 1997-ish. My name is Paige (I'm a guy, just as a heads-up), I live in Maine and I've been downloading (not listening) to your podcast for 4-5 years. There are also late night re-airs (check your listings and set those DVRs) and replays are always available on WatchESPN by clicking on the NFL tab. ![]() We will, however, be on ESPN on Mondays during the season. The Fantasy Show with Matthew Berry airs at 5 p.m. īut the point is we've spoken more in the past week than in the previous six months.Īs an avid downloader of the 06010 and someone familiar with the amount of negativity sent your way online, I figured you deserve to hear about the positive. Some are frustrating ("Why are we waiting to draft a kicker if they score a lot of points?"), some are valid ("You really think Cutler's worth the risk?") and some are philosophical ("Do we even need a defense?"). Since reading your first columns he's been asking a ton of questions. He said what the heck, too.įantasy isn't entirely unfamiliar to him, he's played fantasy baseball, but football is definitely not his forte. Then I texted him congratulating him on his 50% stake in our new fantasy team and sent him links to some of your "mediocre" fantasy advice. I told the commissioner I'd take the team as long as I could co-own with my brother. Though this would be my fourth team, the request came the same day as yours to (again) invite someone new to fantasy this year. Then a friend asked to take over an abandoned dynasty team in his league. Which is all to say he's probably the last person I'd think to share a fantasy football team with. We're as different as Tom Brady and Bryce Petty and like they probably do, we can go months without speaking. I watch football every Sunday, he can't tell you who was in last year's Super Bowl. He's chosen a career of altruism, working in a non-profit, while I chose one of selfishness, working in the entertainment industry. We were both raised as Orthodox Jews, but I abandoned a faith he embraced. While our five-year age difference is hardly insurmountable, our lives have taken diverging paths. It's short, it's long, it's in all caps, it's urgent I read it now, it's from people I know and people I've never met, it's reminders, it's offers and every once in a while, it's these. It's team name suggestions, it's wanting a ruling on something that went down in their league, it's anonymous trolls, it's great pictures of fantasy loser punishments (those are my favorites), it's things I have missed on Twitter (I swear they send those every three minutes, it seems), it's letting me know about the bad advice that cost them a game, the playoffs or the league title, it's other people in the fantasy football industry asking for advice or an introduction or wanting to know if we have any openings at ESPN. Trust me, you weren't alone in losing because of the Kansas City D/ST on Monday night. For me, it's advertisements, it's mailing lists I've signed up for (or haven't), it's news alerts, it's notes from friends and family, from my agent, it's many internal ESPN notices, it's the many different producers and shows I work with at ESPN, it's work obligations, it's start/sit advice, it's asking for a job, an internship, a tweet or some other promotion for their fantasy football blog, it's invitations to appear on radio shows and podcasts, so many podcasts, it's requests for money, for items to be donated, for appearances to be made at their draft, it's challenges to play against people who are sure they would beat me, invitations to play with people in their league because that'd be fun for them, it's investment opportunities, it's people who want to partner with me on something, it's a great idea they are sure I have never heard of before, it's a complaint about something around ESPN or ESPN Fantasy that I have nothing to do with, it's fantasy football bad beat stories.
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