The Destruction of Fantasyland?

For years, I did whatever I could to stay away from the trend that was sweeping the nation....playing fantasy sports. My primary concern was the notion that I would actually be pulling for players who weren't necessarily on my favorite team. I may even at some point have a player on my fantasy team who was playing AGAINST my favorite team. Would it be a conflict of interest?

Eventually, I got past this "severe" mental hurdle.Well, after playing fantasy football for the last three years and now being in the midst of my first fantasy baseball season, I have to say I'm hooked. Fantasy sports are like heroin. Soooooooo addicting.

Real Sports on HBO did a story on the fantasy sports trend last year. They talked about everything from mainstream fantasy football and baseball to the more obscure games of fantasy golf, fantasy European soccer and fantasy sumo-wrestling.One potentially scary thing they touched on toward the end of their piece was the amount of time being spent on fantasy sports sites while people are at work. It's apparently gotten so out of hand that it's speculated within the next two years that most corporations will begin blocking access to these sites as if they were porno or gambling sites. State Farm Insurance has already started doing this http://www.pjstar.com/stories/090906/TRI_BATHG7EG.061.shtml .

NOOOOOOOO! This is an outrage. How could they be allowed to do this?