Why Fantasy Football Matters by Erik Barmack & Max Handelman

Why Fantasy Football Matters by Erik Barmack & Max Handelman

Author:Erik Barmack & Max Handelman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Published: 2006-07-15T00:00:00+00:00


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The Art of the Deal

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”—Pliny the Younger

SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME MAN HAS TRADED. PREHISTORIC cavemen swapped sticks for stones, animal skins for animal meat, and women for women. With the emergence of ancient civilizations, man began exchanging land. Or conquering it, as the case may be. In today’s modern age anything can be traded—shares of stock, MP3s, or even gerrymandered congressional districts. 17.

Trading generally involves exchanging possessions of equal value. You give and you get. Everyone benefits. That’s the theory anyway. But inevitably there’s a winner and a loser. And the worse the loser’s trade, the more interesting the result becomes.

Throughout history there have been pathetic trades. In 1625, the Canarsee Delaware tribe exchanged the rights to Manhattan with the Dutch for twenty-four dollars worth of beads. In today’s dollars, that’s the equivalent of a Duran Duran double-box set. That’s a pathetic trade—even if the South Street Seaport still smells fishy.

In the sports world, Boston sent Babe Ruth to New York for a hundred thousand dollars, cursing the Red Sox for decades. It took a modern-day choke job by Mariano Rivera and the rest of the Yankees to reverse said curse. Yet, still a pathetic trade.



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