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Fantasy Sports as Preparation for Investing

Investing is the greatest game in the world. All previous games I played were preparation for financial investment—such as collecting baseball cards, fantasy sports, poker, chess, and Monopoly. Investing is the ultimate game because it is a combination of all other games. Investing has the strategic thinking of chess, the research and tracking of fantasy sports, and the monetary stakes of poker—except investing is better than all of them, because it combines those aspects together into one omni-game.

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Fantasy Baseball, Zack Greinke, and Social Anxiety

MLB: All Star Game

My first introduction to fantasy sports was in 2009 when I joined a fantasy baseball league. I finished in second place that year and have loved fantasy sports ever since. 2009 was also Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke’s breakout year. He made the All-Star team, won 16 games, had 205 strikeouts, led the American League with a 2.16 ERA and 1.07 WHIP, and won the Cy Young Award. He wasn’t on my fantasy baseball team that year, and I wasn’t a Royals fan, but I was rooting for Zack Greinke’s success because I learned that, like me, he had social anxiety disorder. Continue reading