Twitter recently alerted me to a movie documentary called Fantasyland which followed a fan who was very dedicated, (actually talked to players as if he owned them, gave them jerseys, attempted to make a trade while his twins (not the ones from Minnesota) were being born, and drove 8 hours to talk a trade when the other guy wouldn’t answer his emails.) to this league of “experts”.

This guy has a kind heart, is passionate, and loves baseball. I can feel with all of these things. The movie was also entertaining to a point, even got me thinking about missing categories for about 2 minutes. However the guy gets shown complaining about one of hitters walking, and that ruined that nostalgic moment for me. A walk should be a good thing.

Anyway that’s not the point, the guy joins a league that has been going for a decade or better and it is called “Tout Wars”. It features fantasy writers from different websites, and they did an experiment to invite the fan into the league. That’s where our guy comes into the picture.

Before their auction draft everyone is playing not to lose to this guy, as they are all experts, and maybe for dramatic purposes they were portrayed as elitist snobs. Anyway the movie ends up being pretty good, the fan finishes right in the middle in 6th place of 12 guys, he beats the commissioner, who eventually relieves him of his position after the season, basically in disgust.

Anyway this guy balances a wife, newborn twins, a job in finance, and his fantasy team of the course of the six month baseball season seamlessly and his wife doesn’t murder him. Its truly amazing. Anyway the wife says, he doesn’t drink, smoke, gamble outside of fantasy, watch TV, or have any other vices outside of baseball. So because he puts all his hobby into fantasy and its not costing his attention from anywhere else she’s okay with it.

Overall I give the movie 2.5 stars, good enough to watch once, I wouldn’t watch it again. I am jealous of the fact that he got to meet these players, but now I want to create fantasy baseball jersey shirts. You can watch the movie here!