it's all over. The fantasy football season of 2007 concluded last week with david taking his third league championship. Hung, in his very first playoffs, couldn't shake off the model franchise of our league. It was more of the same, David riding L.D.T once again to the championship. Which of course will bring up the proverbial questioning of why the rich keep getting richer, and the poor get nothing. With david picking up his third championship, khai's two championship, and eric and hon's one a piece, i realized that seven years of our lives have been devoted to this thankless game. Why is it through seven years, that basically four people havem won, while the other six have not? This bell curve is heavily slanted to a certain privileged group of four. Maybe that bell curve that they taught us in math class, the one that supposedly dictates the rule of percentages favoring the majority and most average of people, the one that looks like a bountiful upside down tit, perhaps it was a wrong. Seems like everything i have seen with my own eyes from society, sports, and fantasy now all point to a thermos rather than a bell. Hear me out. That tit, i was just referring to, imagine it as the metal cup that is screwed on top of every thermal canister. Everything that matters or worth processing is in this cup, sport winners, money, power, is located in this cup, and everything that sucks: losers, poverty, discrimination, all that is represented in the canister part of the thermos. There's just a more plentiful supply of have-nots, than haves. More losers in this world than winners. More debt than wealth; more people in debt than those whose benefit from wealth. Perhaps this is the natural shape of all matters in life, a thermos rather than a bell. If that bell curve once represented what an average math class will score in a one semester, than the thermos model, particularity the canister part, represents all the people that won't even get the chance to take that math class. yes, that seems to be the only model that makes sense to me. The metal cup of normalcy is where i seek to be, And right now, i'm definitely in the thermos, with no fantasy championship, looking to just climb into the shadows of that elitist cup.
I mentioned in first post that there's an actual reason why we play this game knowing that there's a chance we won't even get a cash prize. now, that the season is over and I' in last place, i can honest say:
I don't know!
It's just fun, i guess, to know that you can look at your friends and say with complete certainty:
I'm better than you!
well, i guess, i'm still waiting for my chance to do that. always next year to fantasize.
Final standing:
1. david
2. hung
3. eric
4. khai
5. jaymin
6. mike
7. hon
8. sammy
9. albert
10. me
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