1st place blues and other news..
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:00 pm
This daily update of stats is awesome -- especially when for all but 1 day your team is in first place -- none of the rest of you know how that feels, but take my word for it, it is pretty nice. You're all probably thinking right now, "what a cocky bastard -- that first week isn't even over yet." That is very true -- I am a cocky bastard. However, I don't have success very often like some people (cough cough kev) so I when I have the rare occasion to gloat, I don't hesitate to take advantage of it. That being said, 1st place does have it's disadvantages. Just today I was interested in signing a crafty veteran reliever, but was immediately informed by the automated website that the Darkhorses also made a claim to the crafty veteran. I did some quick math and realized that it was very unlikely that by tomorrow morning, David would be ahead of me. Woe is me.
That reminds me -- I love the convenience and ease of this new system, but it's lost a lot of the personal touch. Now I just get this automated message when I screw up my transactions or try to trick Kev into letting me acquire 4 players while only releasing 3. In the past I would get a nice friendly email from Kev telling me that I screwed up again. Those emails made me feel warm and fuzzy inside -- I relished in the human contact. I'm sorry to say, but the DTBL has lost it's lovin' feeling. It's gone gone gone.