Welcome, degenerates, one and all! This is the inaugural entry of the Fantasy Football Degenerate blog - a blog dedicated to those of us who know we really have one thing to live for: Fantasy Football.
I am Bryce Gerrich, your dedicated degenerate, here to provide with nuggets of knowledge, pearls of wisdom, and a bunch of blather about the game we love. I will keep you updated with links from fantasy sites we all trust (RotoWorld, ESPN, CBS Fantasy, Yahoo!, etc.) along with my own analysis and opinions.
As all of us borderline-psychotic fantasy players know, reading about fantasy football is not about finding someone's opinion you can trust unconditionally. With the randomness of fantasy sports and the unbelievable number of so-called "experts" (for the record, you will never hear me call myself that), it's impossible to agree with everything any one person says. Instead, as degenerates, we realize that half the analysis we read will go out one ear and out the other. So why do we spend so much time out of our days, put off so much of our daily work, and alienate our loved ones (or in my case, give my wife just enough time away from me to avoid divorce) just to have half of it mean nothing?
One thing.
That's it: One thing. Every post, every podcast, every night of tequila shots with your best buddy - categorized as "research" on the expense report - should lead us degenerates to finding one single thing about a player, position or team. For instance, I listened to an hour-long podcast from ESPN's Christopher Harris the other day and I only remember one solitary piece of opinion from the entire thing ("Dez Bryant does what Miles Austin does - better"). That one sentence was the most/only important part of that podcast for me, but it was more than worth the time. And that's why we do this. We're all smart enough - at least in our own heads - that we don't need to learn how to play fantasy or have someone give us cheat sheets and hold our hands. We just need one diamond out of 100 pounds of coal.
I hope to provide that through this blog. Now get back to work, slacker.
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