The Morning Offering - May 17, 2005

Written by Ricky on May 17, 2005

Hi. Work sucks, doesn't it? Yeah. Don't do it. Read this instead.

Yo, Veto!!

Yesterday was a heated day in the Matrix (our baseball league). I won't go into details except to say that it involved some prison bitchery and a vetoed trade. It brought up an interesting question, though; one which has been subject of an ongoing debate among the Rotogods for years: What justifies a veto? One camp basically protests any deal that they find too lopsided or "unfair".

The other group (of which I am a member) only protests trades when there is some sort of cheating or collusion going on. Most of the time anyway.

There are a couple of reasons I try to stick to this standard. The first is simply that we have all been playing roto for quite a while, and by now should have some idea what we're doing. We should be responsible for our own actions. The second reason is that player values tend to fluctuate drastically through the course of a season. We really have no idea what is going to happen. On more than one occasion I have seen, in hindsight, that a vetoed trade actually would have benefitted the rapee far more that the raper. Roto, after all, is all about guessing what's going to happen in the future. Nobody really knows. Why hinder anybody's ability to do this?

Also, I believe that anybody who does not agree with me is an asshole and should go suck a fuck.

Yeah, I know this is ridiculously short, but it's late and I'm fucking tired. At least I wrote something. I almost forgot.

Oh, and also, fuck Tino Martinez.

-- Written by Ricky on May 17, 2005