I’ve played fantasy baseball for a few years now. It’s not fun. The season goes on forever and you have to actually pay attention to what’s happening. It wouldn’t be so bad if you didn’t have to make moves every single day between the season starting and ending like nine months later.
NASCAR is an entirely different kind of terrible. The pain here is an excruciating type of boredom over a short burst. I can at least watch a baseball game and enjoy it. There is no joy in watching a single NASCAR race.
For starters, NASCAR announcers are bland and all they want to do is tell viewers just how “loose” or “tight” a car is. Every single car on the track is either too loose or too tight and the hundreds of people there with knowledge of cars seem unable to correct the problem. According to NASCAR announcers, the only solutions either involved adjusting the wedge or trackbar.
Look, I’m not a car guy, but are these even things? I’ve never been like, “Hey, my car is handling poorly today, so I got to get that wedge looked at.” I guess I could live with all this inside baseball talk from NASCAR announcers if the director wasn’t so hellbent on having the camera focused away from the action.
Oh, is there a crash? Well, we missed it to bring you video this guy in 20th place driving around with no hope of winning. Was that a lead change? Doesn’t matter because you need to look at this close up of plastic bag on the track.
The only saving grace is that after four hours, you will be free from your responsibility of watching NASCAR. Fantasy baseball lingers there for days, weeks and months. No booms or busts. No peaks or valleys. It’s like reading a textbook.
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You will scour the free agent list asking yourself if a catcher you don’t care about is a slight upgrade over the catcher you already own and also don’t care about. You’ll send unnecessary brain energy trying to decide which streaming starter is less likely to barf all over themselves in a matchup against a terrible team.
Even if you win your weekly head-to-head contest (I don’t do roto, thank you very much), there is no joy because you don’t really win. Most matchups end with 5-4 or 6-3 scorelines. No one gets too far ahead or too far behind.
Is playing fantasy baseball or watching a NASCAR race worse?
This is really one of those unpleasant, “Who would you do?” type questions where there isn’t a correct answer, only a less wrong one. Personally, I think watching a NASCAR race is worse. Here’s the thing, at least you can still be a champion playing fantasy baseball. It may not mean anything, but no one is taking away that accomplishment from your Yahoo! profile. There is literally no satisfaction to be had after you watched a NASCAR race from start to finish. Who are you going to tell? Who’s giving you props for that? No one, that’s who.
