WSJ: Portland No. 4 NBA Market In Fantasy Basketball Participation

Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal reports that one in 265 people in Portland play Yahoo! fantasy basketball, the fourth highest rate among NBA markets.

San Francisco/Oakland (one in 223), Los Angeles (one in 250) and Boston (one in 259) are the only three markets with a higher density of dorks with imaginary responsibilities and disgruntled significant others.

-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter

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Card carrying member of the Legion of Dorks

Nerds: ASSEMBLE LEGOS!

I know less than half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

by haildablazer on Jan 30, 2012 10:34 AM PST reply actions

A LEGO Trojan, to invade Oakland!

NERDS NERDS NERDS NERDS

by blazermamba on Jan 30, 2012 10:52 AM PST reply actions

revenge of the nerds

by Kevlar Rocket on Jan 30, 2012 11:22 AM PST via mobile reply actions

Gibert: I just wanted to say that I’m a nerd, and I’m here tonight to stand up for the rights of other nerds. I mean uh, all our lives we’ve been laughed at and made to feel inferior. And tonight, those bastards, they trashed our house. Why? Cause we’re smart? Cause we look different? Well, we’re not. I’m a nerd, and uh, I’m pretty proud of it.

Lewis: Hi, Gilbert. I’m a nerd too. I just found that out tonight. We have news for the beautiful people. There’s a lot more of us than there are of you. I know there’s alumni here tonight. When you went to Adams you might’ve been called a spazz, or a dork, or a geek. Any of you that have ever felt stepped on, left out, picked on, put down, whether you think you’re a nerd or not, why don’t you just come down here and join us. Okay? Come on.

Gibert: Just join us cos uh, no-one’s gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

Who's that tromping across my bedge?

by Troll Blazer on Jan 30, 2012 11:46 AM PST reply actions

NO-FREAKIN"-WAY!!

All the wanna-be GM around here totally did not give a clue about this

"What began as a credible protest against bank bailouts, crony capitalism and the like has, in large measure, been hijacked by crazies and criminals,"

by 92wastheyear on Jan 30, 2012 12:51 PM PST reply actions

See, this is the problem with Fantasy sports.

When someone tells me that they decided to go Holy spec for their Paladin with 11 talent points in Ret so that they can get + whatever on their purple uber-tier blade of mega-smiting, it’s all good. I can listen, or not. I can agree, or not, and it’s all fine. Because it’s all fictitious. There’s no basis in reality at all.

Take that same person, and when they start explaining how genius their fantasy roster is and how they’d be swimming in rings if only THEY were the GM, then all of a sudden I feel obligated to beat their self-inflated opinions into submission.

Real friends don’t let their friends play fantasy sports.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice they're not.

by conspirator5 on Jan 30, 2012 1:51 PM PST reply actions