With only a few games left in baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Sox have announced today that they have no desire to play October baseball. A pitiful home series with the Baltimore Orioles is what most fans are pointing to, but the truth is, most of the team just wants to concentrate on their fantasy football leagues. As one team member put it, "Most of us have either Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers as starting QB, and that's just too important to fuck up this early in the fantasy season."
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Most in Beantown are completely sympathetic, knowing the kind of stats both men have already started to rack up. The Red Sox are no different than most average sports fans, in that once the NFL season kicks off, the already suffering attention span of baseball viewing increases tenfold.
"We're just like everybody else," an anonymous bullpen journeyman explains, "this time of year nobody gives a shit about watching the game, so why should we give a shit about playin' the game."
In related news, with the Tampa Bay Rays struggling to gain ground in the AL East, it appears that the Red Sox will have to play well into Autumn. Apparently they have Tom Brady on their fantasy teams as well.
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