Ever since Al Gore invented the internet, folks have used it as a medium through which they could lodge complaints. And, with Web 2.0 tools growing increasingly popular seemingly by the day, there’s no shortage of forums in which people can bitch.
Here’s one I’d like to discuss: Twitter and anti-fantasy football rants. They crop up fairly often in my feed, mostly because the great majority of the users I follow are sports pundits, fantasy experts among them. Basically, the gripe is, “Hey, Bill Barnwell, stick to giving us stats and analysis. We don’t care about your fantasy team.”
Well, this just stinks. I think it’s very much against the spirit of fantasy sports. It’s supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be light-hearted. It’s supposed to be communal. We fantasy junkies are pitted against mainstream society enough as it is — we don’t need to be ripping each other.
Frankly, I find it quite interesting to hear people celebrate wins and bemoan losses. Matthew Berry, espn.com’s lead fantasy columnist, publishes a handful of these each week, and I rather enjoy them. If you, like I, had Robert Meachem on your bench during his two-touchdown performance on Sunday, sitting him in favor of the, say, the worthless Mario Manningham, I want to hear about it. Let’s commiserate.
Let’s have fun.
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