SleepingPoliceman

I need to stop doing things that I don’t really care about that I cannot succeed in. Example #1: fantasy football. I don’t even care about football, yet I’m in two leagues. Each league had an auto-draft, so my lack of knowledge shouldn’t have hindered me at all. But yet both of my teams suck horribly. In the main Somerville-based league, I didn’t pick up Eli Manning off of the waiver wire to be my backup QB because, and I quote myself, “Brian Griese will probably be better.” Eli has gone on to have a huge breakout season, my starting QB (Marc Bulger) hurt himself trying to tackle a guy running past him who had just picked him off, and the aforemention Griese tore his ACL, PCL, NCL, MCI, and AT&T, and a priest is on call 24 hours with the last rites ready to go. So I pick up Daunte Culpepper off the wire, to take a flier and see if he can turn things around. Then his knee explodes into a million pieces. Now my team is just languishing in second-to-last place…I can’t even win the title of worst team in the league.

Example #2: poker. I really think I’m not strategically bad at playing poker, but I always get cards that kill me. I mean always. Either I fold the 3-7 off-suit that ends up a full house, or I get screwed on a straight because someone else has one card higher than me. The last two times I played poker, I lost with a King-high flush to an Ace-high flush, and (last night) went in with Ace-10, paired the 10, and had Ace high to win…except that as I’m collecting the money people realized the other two people who had stayed on the hand had caught a straight on the last card. I consistently have the second-best hand, always seeming to be in a good position to achieve success, but never doing anything but losing.

The moral of the story: those of you who think that fantasy sports and card playing act as some sort of metaphor for how your life is going…you are absolutely correct. And sometimes it’s time to just cash out and go home.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 6th, 2005 at 11:09 pm by ptm and is filed under Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.