1st & 10

Welcome and thanks for checking this out.  Fantasy sports players get a bad rap: nerdy basement dwellers and uber-stat geeks.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  I play with teachers, doctors, real estate moguls, and some of the smartest people I've ever met. Fantasy football is a wonderful thing, and I love it.  I listen to radio shows all day discussing fantasy football, I read countless websites, pre-draft I buy more magazines than I can count, and obsess constantly over my RB-WR-TE flex position.  I love it, eat it, breathe it.

I'm just not very good at it.

Actually, maybe I'm being too hard on myself.  The past few season's I've had a hideous run of bad luck combined with mediocre drafts.  2006, I drafted Tom Brady in an auction style draft.  Paid like 5 bucks.  He was ok, but threw a couple picks in the final game of my fantasy season (week 14), thus I missed the playoffs.  The next year he goes nuts and throws like 134 TD's.  So come 2008 I decided I'm back on the Brady train.  I paid $20 for him in my draft, which was the highest amount anyone paid for a QB.  I was stoked.  Decent draft otherwise, but Brady was my guy.  First game that year also happened to be my birthday and I was fired up to sit around, watch Brady go nuts (playing the "Chefs" that day), and begin my quest to fantasy glory.  Except Tom Brady died to me that day.  Same thing with Matt (my boy, who I was sure was going to go for 3500 yards and 31 TD's in 2007) Leinart.  Last year Brandon Jacobs, Steve Slaton, Carson Palmer, and Roy Williams all forgot how to play good football.  I drafted all of them.  Julius Jones blew up in Dallas in 2004.  I got him in 2005.  I routinely draft Lee Evans.  It's like I'm addicted to him.  He NEVER, EVER pans out.  But I keep coming back (if only he played for the Patriots, ahhh).  I could go on and on, but the point is in my 10 years in my primary league, I have a winning percentage of.... .363.  Even the Tampa Bay Rays went to the World Series, when can I catch a break?

Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result each time.  This year I prepared different, drafted different, and am taking a different approach to in-season moves.  Call me crazy, but I have a feeling this year will be different.

I'll be posting my thoughts, reactions, predictions, complaints, and trash talk here, along with suggestions and tips.  I know my stuff, things just haven't worked out.