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As baseball season comes to a close today, so does my fantasy baseball team’s campaign. I have played in the same league since the early 1990s, which amazes me.<\/p>\n

I finished in sixth out of 12 teams this year. That might sound pretty unremarkable, but this is my best finish since 2001 when I finished in fourth. I managed to avoid major injuries for much of the season and looked like I would finish “in the money” (top 5) for a while, but just couldn’t get that extra push.<\/p>\n

Even though I had pretty much set up shop in the bottom three of the league in recent years, I never really thought about leaving the league. First off, I would be in contention some years for a while before injuries and my lack of attention to which players would really help me did me in. Secondly, our regular meetings are a great chance to hang out, watch baseball and have a few beers.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you hear criticisms about fantasy sports ruining the enjoyment of the sport itself. I’m sure that can be true for some people. But without this league, I would probably hardly notice what happened in baseball. I am much more interested in soccer and have so many other things going on in life.<\/p>\n

I keep in touch with the sport mainly because baseball affords me the opportunity to engage in competition and have a few beers with friends every few weeks. That suits me just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As baseball season comes to a close today, so does my fantasy baseball team’s campaign. I have played in the same league since the early 1990s, which amazes me. I finished in sixth out of 12 teams this year. That…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-fantasy-sports","category-sports","wpcat-44-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}