I've spent way to much of my time on this planet focusing on fantasy sports. I played in my first football & baseball leagues back in 1999 and have been going ever since. Call me a dork,geek or nerd if you will but I love Fantasy Sports!
Now over the years I have become commissioner of our keeper fantasy baseball league. This league is known as the Big South and goes back to 2002. In the Big South we play for a little cash (just to keep it interesting) money. The Big South isn't for the little wussy players either! It is winner take all. One Winner,One Champion,One person getting all the cabbage at the end of the season! When the league is over I make it my top priority to get the winner paid ASAP,as any good comish should do. To me this is good Fantasy Etiquette.
Now let me take you over to our Fantasy Football League. This too is a keeper league and very complicated. Two divisions of 10 teams each. This league dates back to 2003. Like the Big South we throw a little bread on the table to make that adrenaline rush a little bit better on those Sundays in the fall.
Our commissioner Rodney has been the comish since the league's inception. Overall I would say he has done a good job,well until this year that is. In Rodney's RT Sports football league if your money isn't in by week 3 your roster gets locked. It's pretty strict but, I don't have a problem with it.
As time marched on over the past few years we have had owners come & go. As we have had open teams that need to be filled I often recommend my friends. I'll talk the league up and tell my friends how great the league is. One of my recruit's happened to be John Conner.
You may know John from our ShowStoppers Podcast here on BigBadSportsDaddy.com. They tell me he is a blogger too but I haven't seen anything from him in a year or so! Who knows? Anyway I digress.
Now in 2011 my hat is off to John Conner. He won his division and went all the way through the playoffs and made the Fantasy Super Bowl! In only his second year that is pretty impressive. There are people who have been in the league since 2002 and only made the playoffs a couple of times. Unfortunately for John he came up short and only got 2nd place. Unlike the Big South 2nd place is supposed to get paid in RTSports. However here it is June and John still hasn't got paid. WTF?
To my knowledge no one has ever had problems getting their cash from Rodney before. Why would we think this year was going to be any different. Oh and Rodney has went all David Copperfield on us and disappeared.
No returned emails,no returned calls,no returned text, or facebook messages. He has flat-out vanished with the cash!For all we know he has joined the witness protection program. No matter what happen to me this is horrible piss poor Fantasy Etiquette! Unbelivable! How can you do that to guys you have played with for years? Rodney didn't even give us a F-U I'm done type of thing. Just disappeared like Kaiser Soze.
Having played Fantasy Football and Baseball with Rodney for years I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but how can I? It's June! The League was over in December? Where is John's Money?
The Winner of RTSports Shawn got paid in February. A little slow but I guess acceptable. At least he got his money.
Now John and the rest of us in the league are left out in the cold wondering what the hell is going on? Is this 10-year-old league done? Who wants to play in a league where you don't get paid? I sure as hell don't!
Rodney we are getting tired of you ducking us! What you got money for fake moustaches but can't pay John?
Fantasy Players take note and DON'T BE A RODNEY!
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