We are not a creative bunch. This absolutely great article from the Wall Street Journal proves it.
The writer went through 100,000 fantasy baseball teams to figure out what sorts of names we’re picking. He broke it down into categories. Turns out we’re a vile bunch of Yankee haters suffering from a bad case of arrested development.
The most popular categories are
1. Vulgar
2. 80′s movies(like Cobra Kai or Jobu)
3. Yankees based names (like Evil Empire)
Because I am obviously an amateur scientist, I took this data and went into the lab to do some experimenting and come up with the ultimate fantasy baseball team name. I think the answer will please you. It’s after the jump
Thanks to the great guys at Midwest Sports Fan, the King participated in one of his first fantasy football drafts of the year this weekend. Having done little to no research on the topic I found myself drafting on name alone. The least I could have done was get a copy of Entertainment Weekly. I probably wouldn’t have picked Kurt Warner after seeing this picture with Brenda Song. That is so shiny!
When Chris Cooley and Colt Brennan realized they didn’t get their own “Fantasy Files” spot they created two of their own. But instead of portraying themselves, they decide to poke a little fun at the Dallas Cowboys combo of Jason Witten and Tony Romo.
Those pants that Cooley has on are tight. I need to pick me up a pair.
Jack Kerouac recorded player stats, analyzed their performance and wrote about them in a homemade newsletter. Sound familiar? The only difference of course is that Kerouc made up his teams, the athletes, and their stats.
In looking over his roster I wouldn’t mind trading BJ Upton to the Fords for Pancho Villa. Upton has been awful this year and I hear there is a lot of potential upside with Villa.
Now I do take my fantasy sports team semi-seriously, but this fantasy football league takes it to another level. The daughter of Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren was booted from her league for having “inside information.”
Now I don’t know what kind of information she can get that will give her that much of an advantage over other teams, but it seems a little absurd. My guess; it is a league of males that couldn’t beat the one female team owner in the league.
We are not a creative bunch. This absolutely great article from the Wall Street Journal proves it.
