10 weeks into baseball season, I was at the bottom of my fantasy baseball league. My pitchers were bringing up the rear in 3 of 5 categories and the league leader had almost twice my score.
It was a dark time.
It’s now week 21, with 8 and a half weeks left of regulation baseball season and my team is scrapping to stay in the top half of the league. I’ve risen from 12th to 5th and hope to have a strong enough bout of pitching in order to finish in the top three.
It’s been exciting, these past few weeks. I’ve watched my team overcome adversity, when our season looked hopeless at the all-star break. The fact that they’ve managed to pick at opposing teams scores and work their way up into the top half of the league has been inspiring.
It’s now up to me to single out the categories in which I can still make up ground and take some risks. Winning the league is probably out of reach at this point; the leading team has managed to sit atop the league since week 4 and has somehow managed to draft a team impervious to slumps and major injuries.
But this comeback has been in the making for several months. This comeback is destined to be. Nothing can stop this train.
Except, perhaps, my baseball players getting injured or suspended. Or playing badly.