One little mistake...

[Listener]

*grumble*

If Jake Delhomme hadn't fumbled that ball.  If he'd thrown for 50 more passing yards.  If he'd run for 20 more yards.  If he'd tackled someone after dropping the fumble.

If if if.

Instead, in the one of my three fantasy leagues that I care about, I tied, 94.5 - 94.5, with the #1 team, leaving me at 2-1-1 instead of 3-1.  I jumped up to fourth place, but I was supposed to be up to first or second place.  Probably second.

Drat.

[Mr. Ubiquity]

*grumble*

If Jake Delhomme hadn't fumbled that ball.  If he'd thrown for 50 more passing yards.  If he'd run for 20 more yards.  If he'd tackled someone after dropping the fumble.

If if if.

Instead, in the one of my three fantasy leagues that I care about, I tied, 94.5 - 94.5, with the #1 team, leaving me at 2-1-1 instead of 3-1.  I jumped up to fourth place, but I was supposed to be up to first or second place.  Probably second.

Drat.

if he would have taken one less hit off the pipe.
If he would have been with one less hooker the night before.
if he would have injected one more cc of steroids...

your right,  if  if  if.

[Bennyhana]

Carolina won.  This is why Fantasy sports are stupid.  Sports, ESPECIALLY football, are team games.  Individual statistics only exist for sports agents and team GM's to have bargaining chips.  What really matters, at the end of the day, is how well the TEAM played together.  The QB can never complete a pass and the team can win the game.  The middle linebacker can never get a tackle or a sack, but still be an important factor in the game.  That's why I don't play fantasy sports.

[Listener]

Carolina won.  This is why Fantasy sports are stupid.  Sports, ESPECIALLY football, are team games.  Individual statistics only exist for sports agents and team GM's to have bargaining chips.  What really matters, at the end of the day, is how well the TEAM played together.  The QB can never complete a pass and the team can win the game.  The middle linebacker can never get a tackle or a sack, but still be an important factor in the game.  That's why I don't play fantasy sports.

Hey, the team I was rooting for won the game, so I'm not entirely unhappy.

Most of the folks in my league can differentiate between fantasy and reality.  I will always root for the Dolphins, even when I have Willis McGahee and the Buffalo Defense starting on one fantasy team.  I will always root for Carolina and San Diego as well unless they're playing the Dolphins.  I will always root for whomever the Patriots are playing against, even though I have Tom Brady, Deion Branch, Mike Vrabel, and the Patriots Defense.

You get the idea.

It's the people who can't differentiate that spoil it for the rest of us.

I still can't believe I tied in a fantasy game.

[Bennyhana]

You should take it to sudden death, and by that I mean find your opponent and kill him/her.