Game Time? Oh, no it isn't.
(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
As I keep telling my engineer friend George, becoming hooked on fantasy sports is like obsessively frequenting lap-dancing clubs.
It's not real, and yet some people think it's a little more real than the real thing.
Imagine, then, how real the pain was among the throng of Yahoo Sports' Fantasy Football players yesterday, as they tightened their fists, girded their loins and bolstered their bravado -- only to discover that the site has not turned up for work.
Deadspin seems to have been first to notice that Twitter was filling up with Yahoo-targeted abuse -- none, one should add, coming from Donald Trump.
A typically self-expressive tweet was this from one Omar Zahid: "can i know why yahoo fantasy football is not working....i have f***ing vernon davis and reggie bush still on the bench f*** me."
These are sentiments that, I know, some fantasists will understand.
What is odd is that no one seems sure why such pain was caused. Yahoo Sports' Ken Fuchs sent an e-mail to all those who might have been affected by Alex Smith's concussion or the Oakland Raiders' conflagration and their inability to react.
It read, in part: "The outage s... [Read more]
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