fantasy sports.

It's no lie that I enjoy a little fantasy baseball. This is the first year I have participated in this pathologicalically depressing endeavor. However, I have enjoyed the 3 a.m. lineup switches, the hurrying to the computer to pick up Mark DeRosa because he just hit a homer and all the other little novelties of fantasy sports addiction. All of this is irrelevant to the issue at hand, but is necessary for a little bg (background).

I play in a league on Yahoo Sports. The interface is quite user friendly and all that other stuff that makes it fun for a computer dumb-dumb like myself. However, there is one point that absolutely drives me nutty.

Every time one of my players is in the news there is this little post it note that shows up next to their name. When you click on it, it will show you the news clipping of that player. This has been very handy as the balance of my team enjoys the trainer's table more than the field. That is beyond the point - the thing that drives me crazy is when it gives advice.

Sometimes the "news" will be presented like this:

Aug 14 Glaus injured his knee swinging and missing a pitch.

Advice Glaus is batting .264 with 31 Home Runs and 86 RBI's.

The first problem I have with this is the actual news. One, my player (as usual) is injured. Second, he injured himself in the process of striking out. That is fantastic. The second problem I have is the advice. I would love advice that says something like this, "Glaus will be out for a long time, you should drop him and pick up Edwin Encarnacion off of the waiver wire." That would be terrific - that would be really helpful. However, no, Yahoo can't do that for me, but what advice they can give me is how productive that player who is now injured has been all year. Thank you Yahoo for slicing open the crux of my knee and seasoning the open wound with salt.