A fantasy draft is one of the happiest and most stressful two hours for me. Reading through the lists of available players is like looking at old yearbooks from schools I only wish I attended. Getting the player I want is like getting asked to dance at an 8th grade gymnasium soiree.
But the time between turns inches by excruciatingly slowly. The minute and a half each team gets to select their next player seems to last forever. The horrendous buzzer counting down the seconds until my turn is up must have been invented by a disgruntled Yahoo! employee bent on making everyone else miserable as well.
An unnecessarily dramatic description? Sure. But this group of hypothetical guys will be with me for the next 6 months, 7 if I'm really lucky. So it's important, to me at least, that I like them. In the middle of an incredibly stressful week, this cyber draft brought me a much welcomed distraction and a much needed smile. And at the very least, now I have 19 more reasons to look forward to the season opener (ON FRIDAY!!).
And those reasons are:
A motley crew, yes. But the start of a very exciting make-believe season.
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