Our Story

A couple of years ago, our fantasy baseball, football and basketball leagues regularly began cracking 10,000 and 20,000 posts per season. We knew then we were on to something extraordinary. What we didn’t know was that it would become more than just an extraordinary way to avoid our work.

Well, now it has. We’ve decided to share our ridiculous thoughts with the world.

So who are we? Rotogods consists of two professional sports journalists; one law student; one near-nursing home resident (read: over 30); and a bunch of guys with nothing better to do at their office jobs than shoot the shit, rag on each other, and get in heated, emotional arguments about sports, music, girls, mothers, who gets to have TiVo’s sisters (everyone?), and the like.

The Rotogods trace their roots to the mid-90s, when two high school kids from the Boston area made a discovery that would change the course of their lives forever: rotisserie sports.

Stop laughing.

Each week they would buy a newspaper and add up all the stats from the previous seven days’ box scores. It was a pain in the ass. But they did it anyway, because they were losers and had nothing better to do.

When fantasy sports went online, the two childhood schoolmates -- Junky and Xach -- started competing with El-Amin, Ricky and Gerg. El’s twin brother, Ape, and little brother (who we call Timberlake) soon joined the fray. So did Xach’s long-haired friend from hippie college, Worm.

TiVo, who went to grade school in Boston with Junky, Xach and Ricky, somehow ended up near D.C., and brought in The Fool and Father Time. The Beagle, Ricky's psycho college friend, moved to Boston and immediately joined the crew.

Thanks to Al Gore's invention, the Rotogods -- now grown into their mid-20 to early 30 year-old beer guts -- are connected online across the globe. Okay, down half the Atlantic coast. We root passionately Boston, New York, Philadelphia and D.C. teams, with a few odd allegiances to teams like the Packers, Braves, Blue Jays and Pistons. This of course makes for some serious sports debates, from Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning, to whether Iverson really needs to practice, to those evil Yankees, to Pornikova.

We are white, black, Indian, Christian and Jewish. We hail from the big city to the rolling countryside. And yes, we are all certifiably insane. Sports is not just entertainment, it’s a major part of our lives. So are video games, politics, girls and movies -- and they're all fair game on the site.

For now, we’ve sort of toned our rhetoric down, as you‚re still getting to know us. But what makes this site unique, and what we hope will keep you coming back, is that we speak from the heart, in the voices of true sports fans and roto addicts. It ain't always pretty. Tired of that asshole giving up eight runs every time you throw him in your lineup? So are we. When Shaq’s free-throw percentage is fucking someone’s fantasy team up the ass, expect to hear about it. We know it pisses you off too.

That’s what led us here. Those of us with jobs (that would be most of us) found ourselves spending hours every day posting on our league message boards. Our baseball league broke 40,000 posts this year, no lie. So we thought, why not share the love? There have to be at least ... uh ... 10 people out there like us. Right?

Guythththths?

Come on in and enjoy. Just don‚t tell our bosses.