He invited me to join a league with he, his wife and several other folks. This has been my first year, my first introduction to Fantasy Football. Call it beginner’s luck or what have you, but my team has done very well at 10 wins and only 4 losses. I must confess however, that I have put MANY hours into studying the players, predictions and also trading many players in attempts to maximize every week’s performance. Most guys simply get a decent bunch of guys and ride them through the entire season.
The strategy for me has been the most appealing. One week, there’s a standout player that no one ever dreamed of picking up that’s suddenly become a hot commodity. That’s been difficult for me since my teams has been successful, that puts me at the end of the line in acquiring new talent every week. Losing teams get the priority and therefore, I have to look for players BEFORE they get hot. But ultimately, there’s a lot of luck regardless of predictions or projections.
My problem is this, I’m not a very good winner.
In fact, I’d say that I’ve been a bit of a turd at times as I can’t resist taunting my bro-in-law. Furthermore, my sister-in-law makes up two of my four losses and I finally beat her this week in our playoffs. Do you think I could just let that bus go by? Last night, I had to whip out my iPhone and quote performances of her players and where where she could have re-arranged her bench to have beat me. This, in itself, isn’t all that bad. But her dad had just arrived for the Holiday season, we were sitting down to dinner and I just couldn’t put it on the shelf.
On one hand, a little trash talk is always par for the course. It’s a must for friendly banter and competitive entertainment. Yet, why should I feel compelled to engage during a FAR MORE meaningful event? Worse, I don’t really trash talk, I have a way of gloating in a more derogatory fashion. I slam people. I’m more cutting. That sucks.
To me, humility is such a powerful and amazing trait that I admire in others, leaders especially. My own life definitely contains a great amount of humility, but in this particular area… not so much.
Anyone know of some training for proper trash-talking etiquette?
