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    Time to Hang 'em Up?

    Well, we're approaching the middle of January. Keeper trades will start soon in my leagues, league fees will be due, and pitchers and catchers should report in just over a month. So I need to make a call.

    I'm thinking about hanging 'em up. I've played 30 or 31 years (can't remember 1985). Met some good guys, had some good times. Seems like time to move on.

    This has been the only forum I've ever visited...hope retired guys can still get in.
    Last edited by ; 01-12-2016, 02:38 PM. Reason: changed "July" to "January" :(
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  • #2
    July?
    Considering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Pogues View Post
      July?
      If he thinks it is July it may be time for him to retire.

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      • #4
        Lucky,

        All kidding aside, if it is still fun why would you retire? Of course if it is no longer fun why play?

        Either way I would hope you would be coming in here often.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Pogues View Post
          July?
          Yeah, there's part of the problem. I always think it is July and I keep waiting for Shannon Stewart to get called up.

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          • #6
            I havent played Fantasy Baseball in at least 10 years. So I believe "retired" guys are allowed.
            It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must stop it.
            Bill Clinton 1995, State of the Union Address

            "When they go low - we go High" great motto - too bad it was a sack of bullshit. DNC election mantra

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            • #7
              I seriously thought about taking a year off, but decided it was still too much fun to quit.

              Although i have made a vow to myself to devote less time and take it less seriously this year. We will see how that plays out.
              "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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              • #8
                I'm going to be 61 in March, and I simply can't think of what life would be life without fantasy sports. it's such a simple timefiller when I need to noodle away at a problem, or out riding my bike. I can put as much time into it as I want, or as little as I want (staying true to leaguemates), and still enjoy that extra level to watching the games. It's an age-proof activity in an era when there simply aren't that many anymore. I'm not going to play "Call of Duty", or whatever is the hot game now, and I'm just not wired to sit on the couch and drink beer for anything other than baseball.

                Consider your decision carefully Lucky, there's plenty of time to mull it over before you pull the trigger. Good luck.
                "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
                - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

                "Your shitty future continues to offend me."
                -Warren Ellis

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by baldgriff View Post
                  I havent played Fantasy Baseball in at least 10 years. So I believe "retired" guys are allowed.
                  Whoa! Who let the retired guy in?

                  just kidding.


                  I'll hang em up when they lay me down.
                  “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

                  ― Albert Einstein

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Hornsby View Post
                    I'm going to be 61 in March, and I simply can't think of what life would be life without fantasy sports. it's such a simple timefiller when I need to noodle away at a problem, or out riding my bike. I can put as much time into it as I want, or as little as I want (staying true to leaguemates), and still enjoy that extra level to watching the games. It's an age-proof activity in an era when there simply aren't that many anymore. I'm not going to play "Call of Duty", or whatever is the hot game now, and I'm just not wired to sit on the couch and drink beer for anything other than baseball.

                    Consider your decision carefully Lucky, there's plenty of time to mull it over before you pull the trigger. Good luck.
                    61! I always thought you were in your mid 30's for some reason.
                    "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

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                    • #11
                      I stopped playing fantasy baseball after the 2012 or 2013 season. My home league folded and my frustration with the direction mlb had taken the game of baseball made it very easy to walk away. I got out of fantasy hockey about the same time.

                      I continue to play in 2 fantasy football leagues, but neither are keeper.

                      Lucky, I would encourage you to check out vintage drafting.
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                      "Certainly. You take the blonde and I'll take the one in the turban!"

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Long John View Post
                        I stopped playing fantasy baseball after the 2012 or 2013 season. My home league folded and my frustration with the direction mlb had taken the game of baseball made it very easy to walk away. I got out of fantasy hockey about the same time.

                        I continue to play in 2 fantasy football leagues, but neither are keeper.

                        Lucky, I would encourage you to check out vintage drafting.
                        I lost interest after all the mid-2000's scandals. The generation of players that came after hasn't really done much to drag me back.

                        Vintage drafting is far better anyway.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mithrandir View Post
                          61! I always thought you were in your mid 30's for some reason.
                          LOL...I appreciate that. I'd guess that it's because I work with a bunch of younger people and have to pull my weight just as they do. Plus, I really don't want to be one of those old geezers who fight technology...I may not embrace it all, but I try to keep my hand in with the new toys.
                          "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
                          - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

                          "Your shitty future continues to offend me."
                          -Warren Ellis

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                          • #14
                            I am 59 and have been doing it 30 years. I have been commissioner and ran the league for all 30 of my local Al only league. I have had my years when I didn't have as much fun . One league member told me this might be his last year and ask if I think about hanging it up. I told him no and I think I will enjoy it more in my retirement years and it will give me something to do.

                            Long john and Johnny are right tho. Try your hand at vintage drafting. Roto ball with some cutthroat to it. It is a blast.. You to Horns

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Lucky View Post
                              Well, we're approaching the middle of January. Keeper trades will start soon in my leagues, league fees will be due, and pitchers and catchers should report in just over a month. So I need to make a call.

                              I'm thinking about hanging 'em up. I've played 30 or 31 years (can't remember 1985). Met some good guys, had some good times. Seems like time to move on.

                              This has been the only forum I've ever visited...hope retired guys can still get in.
                              Fine, I didn't want to see you in April anyway..................
                              If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011

                              Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
                              Martin Luther King, Jr.

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