Saturday, March 12, 2011

Obligatory Day Whatever Post

How much trouble is it to be involved in a fantasy baseball league?  I was just invited to join one.  Though I've never once played any kind of fantasy sports league (am I the only male in America who can say that?), I've always secretly been curious.  (I Am Curious: Baseball--the third in the trilogy of groundbreaking Swedish films.) Still, of all sports, baseball seems like it would require the most day to day work on the part of an owner.  On the upside, it would make me, you know, care about baseball, which beside undoubtedly making me a better American, would probably make the summer sports season more bearable.

I welcome reader input.

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Stomu Yamashta--a musician that Dez, among others, would enjoy.  A Japanese jazz fusion drummer who rose to prominence in the 70s, Yamashta has recorded albums that sound to me like a mix of post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra.  I found out about him by researching the music I heard in the soundtrack to Nic Roeg's Man Who Fell To Earth.  His CDs aren't available on itunes, but can be found on Amazon.  Worth looking into, if for nothing else that to get to experience album covers like this one....

5 comments:

Dezmond said...

I do a rotisserie fantasy basketball league, and that requires much attention. I imagine baseball is similar because there are so many games in the season. Is it rotisserie (sp?) or is it head-to-head? Football is the easiest (or least time consuming) fantasy sport to play.

Dezmond said...

They have fantasy NASCAR.

ANCIANT said...

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured. I'll probably stay out of it; it's just another thing for me to get obsessed and then angry about.

You should check out Yamashtu, Dez. I think you'd like him.

JMW said...

Different leagues require different levels of upkeep. Leagues of any sport that make you, say, set your roster anew every day seem like far too much obligation for me. All my baseball leagues are fairly flexible in terms of how much effort they require. Of course, I've been in a league every summer since I was 15, so the idea of not being in one is pretty alien at this point.

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