I hate fantasy sports. I just have this unnatural dislike for them.
My mom and my brother started their first fantasy baseball team (and then later, a football one) this year. At first, I didn't really care, mainly because they didn't know what they were doing. Eventually, my brother got the hang of it, and started picking players who had the right stats. My mom couldn't get it. She'd be upstairs on the computer and I'd be watching tv with my brother downstairs. She'd yell (a very load yell, incase you were wondering) down to my brother and ask him about a player or two, they'd argue about if he was "good enough" for them, and I'd end up with a headache.
Then, sometime around September, they both started to get really into it. It got to the point where they started rooting for the other team. The team they were playing one night had just picked up Lester, who was going to pitch that night. I was sitting on the couch, watching the game, and my mom says to me, "I hope Lester has a bad night tonight." What. The. Hell. She calls herself a fucking Red Sox fan, yet she want's the Red Sox players to suck? What kind of fan is that? It pisses me off.
"Yay! Papelbon allowed a homer!"
"I wish Ortiz hadn't hit that RBI double!"
"Ok, how can we get Manny and Lowell have an amazing night, and still have Beckett suck?"
Seriously. It's discusting. And it looks like they're going to be the same with the football season. I hate it. As a Red Sox fan, you root for the Red Sox. You don't root for
some of them. You don't want any of them to do bad. My brother think's he's the biggest Sox fan in the house, yet he gets excited when Pedroia makes an error. What kind of fan is that? Someone, please explain it to me.
Oh, and another thing. At dinner tonight, my parents were complaining about the loss. Yes, it sucks, but this is the Red Sox. They have off nights, but then they just pick right up the next day and kick ass. I said to them "did you serious expect them to sweep the Indians?" and my mother, dead serious, said yes. They have the
same exact record as the Sox, two 19 game winners, and an overall impressive team. There was almost no chance it was going to be a perfect series. As a baseball fan, I know that. I know there are going to be flaws. I accept it, and know that they can come back.
Sorry, people piss me off sometimes.