March 28, 2007 12:35 AM
Office Pool Mayhem
I try to avoid office pools for this very reason. That and I always end up with Southeastern Rhode Island School for the Jump Shot Impaired or some such place so I try to save myself the embarrassment.
Fantasy Leagues are a whole different thing because those basically come down to:
A. Exposing your total lack of knowledge about the Fantasy sport you are participating in or
B. Your stud running back spends the entire season on IR ( yes, I had Shaun Alexander last year) thus ruining your season and with it whatever decent reputation you once had in the work place.
So I am choosing to venture back into the Fantasyland of Rotisserie Baseball by joining some league I found on MLB.com. I will spare you the gruesome details of my involvement in the league unless, of course, I happen to win, which will then lead to many, many cartoons about someone winning their Fantasy Baseball League. I wouldn't worry. It's not likely to happen.
I'm in the midst of reading The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski, and I have discovered one thing... When I grow up I want to be just like Buck O'Neil. I want to posess the same sunny, optimistic outlook on life that O'Neil had. I want to look beyond the potentially embittering parts of life and choose joy instead. I want to see people the same way that Buck O'Neil did, always looking for the good in others and always going out of his way every day to make someone feel a little better.
Sounds like a conflict for a cartoonist who makes a living making fun of others but not really. Lifes pratfalls makes for good folly and usually funny cartoons and that's what I do for a living. It's not necessarily how I see life. It's easy to grow a little cynical about the world we live in and sports in general with all the steroids and the off-the-field stuff that happens. So I think I'll take a few pages from the book about Buck and try not to be so pessimistic about it all. I highly recommend Posnanski's insight into the world of O'Neil. It's a good read about a great man. A man the world could use a lot more of.
Drew
March 28, 2007
9:15 AM
MJ writes:
Ouch. That would be embarrassing.
Looks like Brandon Marshal will be the newest tenant of the Mike Shanahan dog house.
December 18, 2009
3:12 AM
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Have you looked at what your site does in firefox? It looks a little messed up on mine. Is it just me or?
September 24, 2010
9:51 AM
Shelton Calumag writes:
President Barack Obama thought the comments "utterly outrageous and offensive -- particularly although in the city where the 9/11 attacks occurred." but not untrue?