Anyone hear have a persuasion technique that I can use to get Missus Halofan to play Fantasy Baseball? She has never played it and has been a fan now long enough... I think it is time. It was easier to get a kiss on our first date than it has been to get her to join my fantasy league. Any advice?
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Rev, have you ever watched "The League"?
That show should answer all of your questions about women and fantasy sports.
Commander_Nate - March 4, 2010
Rev's gonna become the dude who's woman makes all his picks
notice: that man did not win the Shiva.
BruinHalo - March 4, 2010
*whose
I need to learn me some English
BruinHalo - March 4, 2010
Get her into a beer league
one where they drink a lot and everyone is there to have fun and no one cares and it is pressure free. Hardest thing in the world to get someone who is used to succeeding in life to be happy playing a sport where failure is the norm. Then again, she wound up with you, so maybe batting .300 wouldn’t be such a shock.
Moondoggy - March 4, 2010
Your wife should play
I am a female and I’ve played in a league for the last 4 years. I don’t always win but I hold my own in our league.
Depending on how much she knows about baseball it will help her learn more and more and you pay more attention at the games.
Our rules is though you always cheer for the Angels even if it hurts your fantasy team.
angelsfan7 - March 4, 2010
propose a challenge
Women hate it when men question their knowledge/skill/ability etc… Especially from their significant other. If she’s as crazy about baseball as you are then make a bet with her or just flat out tell her that she wouldn’t be good at it anyway… She’ll get pissed and accept the challenge and next thing you know she’s throwing shit at the tv when the sports crawl shows that all her pitchers got lit up.
Think of something she’d love and tell her if she places higher than say… 6th place, you’ll do something she’d be super stoked on. Couples usually love some friendly competition, especially if the subject is something you both love. Just a thought…
AlohaHalofan - March 4, 2010 via mobile
Don't how enough about Missus Halofan to vote.
I do enough about Mrs. Sothball that she’d think fantasy baseball involves Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland
Conan the Barbarian batting clean-up?
sothball - March 4, 2010
All I know is
If my girlfriend was willing to participate in such things fantasy football, baseball, or any types of gaming(even card games) over the 3+ years of being together, I would have had much less trouble getting dragged by her to all the pop-art and contemporary art exhibits over the years.
jtkelly86 - March 4, 2010
It's ok if she teaches you about modern art
As long as you’re allowed to show her it’s ok to fart! :D
Commander_Nate - March 4, 2010
and maybe i'd impress her, by being in a band..
thanks for taking me back to high school Nate. haha.
b0rd3rline - March 4, 2010
and maybe if I acted real tough, she'd let me hold her hand...
You’re welcome! Glad someone else here knew that song, I was afraid I was getting old.
I need to re-learn how to play it, there’s some fun riffs in there.
Commander_Nate - March 5, 2010
Pop Art
I tried to loot LA MOCA during the 1992 riots to steal a Warhol. Almost got my head shot off.
Rev Halofan - March 4, 2010
There's a moment we can all be proud of.
Stirrups - March 4, 2010
So you were one of the people participatin' in some anarchy
While I was at home watchin’ my TV.
I was like 6 at the time…had no idea what was going on.
Commander_Nate - March 4, 2010
Go big or go home right?
BruinHalo - March 4, 2010
exactly!
an armful of warhol is worth more than two stereos from circuit city
Rev Halofan - March 4, 2010
You're were willing to take a bullet from a National Guard rifle over a Warhol?
esp. when there’s artwork by Richter & Rauschenberg hanging nearby?
Quad Fin Rider - March 4, 2010
i despise richter
history will show him as the most overrated piece of shit in history.
Rauschenberg’s great but carrying a combine painting during a curfew would have been a hell of an ordeal and there were some sweet warhols in the first gallery by the front door could have carried two off and made more than a million each.
Rev Halofan - March 4, 2010
Couldn’t overrated piece of shit be a title just as easily claimed by Warhol?
I like some of his art but it seems like a lot of what he did was just regurgitated, reformulated & repackaged Marcel Duchamp.
I wouldn’t get risk getting shot over stealing an artwork,,, unless it were a Franz Marc. Even then I would never steal it for money, but just to keep it for my own enjoyment since I’m a selfish prick.
Quad Fin Rider - March 4, 2010
oh and moca did not have the national guard
this was days before they got called in – they had a 17 year old security guard who was basically just grabbing at the gun as we approached.
Rev Halofan - March 4, 2010
I thought you were joking -- you’re serious about this aren’t you?
I nearly forgot the National Guard didn’t arrive in LA until nearly a week after the riot started & the LAPD was busy running away from anything that looked like it might be dangerous in those early days. I’m surprised that security guard actually held his ground.
Quad Fin Rider - March 5, 2010
Funny story about the LAPD, and disasters
During one of my last Annual Training periods in the USMC Reserve, we were assigned to help out with this big disaster preparedness exercise at the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is slated as one of the primary refugee and relief sites if a major disaster strikes So Cal/LA. A bunch of helicopters from Miramar were part of the exercise and everything. Some of you might have seen this on the news back in… summer 2007 if I recall right.
Anyway, guys like me who had maintenance and support jobs didn’t really have much to do related to the aircraft. They obviously didn’t need ordnance or avionics work, etc for this. So they assigned us to wear civilian clothes and play the role of displaced refugees and casualties for various parts of the exercise for various agencies. One that we did repeatedly was to play people who hadn’t been fed for a few days and were “unhappy” about the distribution of food. Our job was to be “aggressors” against groups of riot police at some of the gates.
Well, needless to say the first few times they weren’t happy with our performance. The first or second time, we actually pushed through the police skirmish line and somebody knocked the hopper off one guy’s pepperball gun, causing a bunch of balls to get trampled and releasing the pepper spray. We were a bunch of younger Marines told to play aggressors, what did they expect? I had to laugh a little.
The police officer in charge of the whole scenario stopped it after the 3rd or 4th go and was like “you guys are supposed to be civilians who are hungry and scared, not a bunch of military guys, remember that.” I was really surprised by that. Were they not around for the LA Riots? Had they not seen what happened after Hurricane Katrina? I sincerely hope local law enforcement doesn’t expect people to be calm and docile after say, a 9.0 earthquake when anarchy and desperation will rule in the aftermath. Sure, maybe the Beverly Hills folks will be passive, but the people from South Central, Riverside, Garden Grove? I don’t think so.
I didn’t actually say anything because I didn’t want to be doing pushups under the field goal posts until somebody got tired of watching me. But, I seriously hope they have more realistic expectations if something serious ever does happen to So Cal.
Commander_Nate - March 5, 2010
i will get my warhol then
hmmm… nice scenario. And there will be riots in Beverly Hills if a 9.0 hits… if BH is still there!
Rev Halofan - March 5, 2010
Ok, Palos Verdes then, or Cota de Caza
Or some other glitzy place.
Commander_Nate - March 5, 2010
I say put cash on the line. Or, better yet, casino chips from her favorite joint.
$1000 for 3rd or better
$900 for 6th or better
$800 for 9th or better
$700 for 12th or better
$600 for 15th or better
$500 for 18th or better
$400 for 21th or better
$300 for 24th or better
$200 for 27th or better
$0 for 28th or worse
Then start offering up parlays. $25 for every trade she pulls off. $10 for every consecutive win beyond 3. That sort of stuff.
Stirrups - March 4, 2010
Rotisserie geeks are the downfall of our society.
Stay strong, Missus Halofan.
bc56274 - March 4, 2010
I got mine to join Fantasy Football and offered up...
$100 of those Spa card thingies you can get at Costco. Of course there was already the $$$ you can win in the league itself.
But the key is just to make it her vs. you. She just needs to beat you in the standings to get the Spa cards.
Thing is, for me, it was the WORST mistake ever. In many ways, it somewhat ruined the fun that was my escape because of all the little stuff that comes with it.
So my advice is don’t do it unless she naturally enjoys it otherwise you might regret it ;)
RedFog - March 4, 2010
Oh yeah forgot to mention, the whole key to the thing was that I would go with her to the spa.
Women love if you offer yourself up to go out of your way and do something with them you normally wouldn’t. After all, you are asking her to do something with you she normally wouldn’t.
And yes, I HATE spas. Luckily I won the entire league that year and gave her $200 of spa cards since the superbowl winnings were almost $1k.
RedFog - March 4, 2010
Both.
LittleCupcakes - March 4, 2010
Ask yourself this
Do you really need another Angel fan in your league to compete with for your favorite players?
My league has too many Angel fans already. I always have to overpay to align my fantasy interests with my nightly cheering interests.
LosAngel - March 4, 2010
Oh man I wanna be in your league
Homers are notoriously bad fantasy players. Especially if they’re angels homer since soths teams aren’t built for fantasy success.
BruinHalo - March 5, 2010 via mobile
Good luck with that.
Personally, I’m like the guy in Knocked Up who sneaks off to play fantasy baseball. I don’t have to sneak off to play, but it’s the one thing in my life that is ALL MINE. I have to share my TV, my money, my cream cheese wontons, my bed (OK, that one’s not so bad), and my shitter with my wife, but not my fantasy baseball. It’s not that I really mind sharing these things, it comes with the territory of being married (or living with a serious girlfriend). It’s just nice to have something for oneself.
Can you tell what a romantic guy I am?
Higz - March 5, 2010
Yep, you're almost as romantic as me
I tell my roommates not to invite certain chicks over for playoff baseball, the Superbowl, etc. What can I say, I’m I purist.
I’m not the only dude I know who does this either, so :p
Commander_Nate - March 5, 2010
It's not even certain chicks
It’s certain PEOPLE. I have friends who are completely clueless about baseball, and yeah I don’t want them over during playoffs asking stupid questions and hogging the guacamole. To her credit, my wife watches baseball better than 95% of my friends.
Higz - March 5, 2010
Why would you want to?
In marriage do 95% of your non-work activities together and enjoy the hell out of the other 5%.
Fantasy draft day is known as the best day of the year for a reason and it isn’t because of the bargain you found in Tommy Hanson. You get to mock your buddies, drink and eat like it is your last day on earth and best of all not receive communication from your spouse.
That being said I have been in fantasy leagues with women and I have on occasion lost to them in the standings. It isn’t a knock on them but in my marriage I’d say no thank you.
and just in case you are monitoring my activities…honey I love you!!!
SalmonStream - March 5, 2010
HA!
My girlfriend has decided to play fantasy baseball for her 1st time. I do not mind her beating me in the league because I created her account and set up her draft rankings. It’s basically my team with absolutely no control. It should be fun…!!
CAN NOT WAIT TIL THE SEASON STARTS !!! ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
asolano49 - March 9, 2010
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