It has been a long while since I have really had fun with fantasy football. After focusing on the fantasy industry so intently for the last three years, I think I burned out on it. I posted twice in September. Yeah, that’s a pretty sad number, but I needed to step away from it for a while. Now, I am focusing on playing the game. That is something that I have not done since the 2005 season, and wow, is this so much fun again.

Over the last few years, I managed five or six teams at a time, and most of the teams were put on autopilot. I drafted the guys that were supposed to perform, cut players as I went, and made waiver wire pick-ups as teams needed them. However, no team really got the full attention that it deserved and/or needed. I did it because I was supposed to, not because I wanted to.

Now, with just two teams in two different friend leagues, I am having a blast. The message boards are full with friendly, yet biting banter over waiver wire pick-ups, trades, and whether Michael Vick is worth a shot. The interaction with friends, crunching numbers (I am an engineer at all), and predicting what is going to happen is what lured me into this industry. I actually worry about my teams winning and losing

I got into the fantasy business because this was fun for me. Somewhere along the lines, it stopped being fun and was about a business. This site has had too many starts and stops in its short life, but that is just part of the process. Determining what I really want, what I want this site to be, and how do I get there. Fantasy sports are supposed to be fun, and I’m going to make sure it stays fun for me.

When I’m having fun, you’ll have fun, since this means there is a lot of great content about to start coming at you.

Fantasy sports news junkies now have a new outlet for discovering the latest news with Fantasy Sports Blips. Launched as a sub-site of BallHype, Fantasy Sports Blips is a niche social news network that allows fantasy players to find and promote the latest fantasy sports stories, with a few simple clicks.

BallHype, along with Yardbarker, successfully pioneered itself as the “Digg for Sports.” Since BallHype’s sale to Future US last year, Future US has focused BallHype on creating niche social news networks, 48 to date, including Beltway Blips, Football Blips, and MMABlips. All of these sites are all rolled up into Daily Radar, which markets itself as “obsessed with your passions,” and has grown its readership to over 1M unique visitors in just six months by focusing on niche social news.

As a social news site, there is nothing special that distinguishes Fantasy Sports Blips from any other social news site–except for the endless amount of fantasy sports news. But, I can not help but get excited by the fact that finally might be a true forum for fantasy players to discuss and share player news.

If Fantasy Sports Blips becomes popular, it has the potential to become a clearing house for the latest fantasy sports news. While fantasy players tend to have their favorite sites to check out for news, a site that allows the best fantasy sports articles to bubble to the top can easily become an invaluable resource and. The downside is can Fantasy Sports Blips become popular enough? Fantasy players are highly secretive and often will not share information. Once Fantasy Sports Blips is able to garner a large enough audience that new content frequently floats to the top, it should become a must-read for fantasy sports fanatics.