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The
Fantasy Man
&
Fantasy
Baseball Express 2008
The FBE Community:
Welcome to Fantasy Baseball Express, Home of The
Fantasy Man Show Baseball Podcast, brought to you by
Fantasy Sports Express, Inc. This is our attempt at
revolutionizing the Fantasy Sports industry and
revolutionizing the way fantasy players find and use fantasy
sports advice. FBE strives to provide up-to-date free fantasy
baseball advice. We provide fellow managers with free advice
and guidance on Trades, Keepers, Prospects, Waiver-Wire
pickups/drops, Draft Strategies, overall Team Management
Strategies, and general fantasy baseball related material.
FBE offers expertise for beginners, experienced players and
"experts". We do this via...
- A website dedicated to free fantasy baseball advice.
- The Fantasy Man Show - A Weekly Podcast.
- Free advice by Email - The Fantasy Man will personally
answer your questions.
- We'll also throw in Draft Tools,
Articles/Blogs,
an Interactive Message
Board, an all-Fantasy Baseball Forum, and a fantasy
baseball community of writers who are passionate fantasy
players just like you and me.
Its all about fun, and its free:
You might be wondering what the catch is,
right? Where to sign up or what sneaky thing you
have to do to get the free information, right? Well, we
are happy to say that its all free, yes, from the kindness of
my own heart. We just hate to see fantasy baseball
managers get so frustrated that they abandon their teams and
their leagues half way through the season and as a result, may
ultimately ruin a league that was once fun and full of trash
talking, trade talking, or even just simple communication.
Fantasy Baseball is supposed to be fun for a full 6-7 months
with everyone keeping an eye on the prize.....cash and a
league championship! Winning a championship is not just
about the money though. No no, its also about the
bragging rights as most of us play in a league with friends,
family and co-workers, and of course, its also about sharing
good times with those same people as well.
Every fantasy baseball manager wants to
draft that perfect team and keep that perfect team in
the starting line up all season. Problem is, its
impossible. That's where Fantasy Baseball Express
comes in. Before the season, during the season and in
the off-season, we need to manage our teams and our fantasy
baseball knowledge. We want to keep our teams
competitive by making trades, smart free agent pickups/drops,
and deciding on what draft strategies to go with. We
need help with our preseason drafts and help managing our
keeper lists in the off season. We need second
opinions on trade deals or waiver wire pick ups and we simply
need our baseball in those winter months when we're bored with
Football.
The Fantasy Man:
Fantasy Baseball Express provides you with real and
personal advice from someone who has over 10 years of
Fantasy Sports experience, has won numerous league
championships over that span, and is completely knowledgeable
in the field of Fantasy Baseball. This someone, created
this fantasy baseball tool out of the love to this game, as a
hobby, so offering it for free and spreading knowledge to new
and fellow fantasy baseball team managers is rewarding in and
of itself. This someone is me, Mike Kuchera, the
self proclaimed "Fantasy Man".
Now wait, don't get mad at me for calling
myself the "The Fantasy Man".....let me
explain! I know you're wondering how I came upon this
title? Well, if you must know, I made it up! Yep,
that's right! One day I woke up and said, "Hmmmm, I
think I will call myself the Fantasy Man".
Actually, I was playing around one day in January 2006 right
after Christmas, of which I had received an iPod from my
family. I also received a book about "Podcasting"
I had actually never heard of Podcasting before that day so
after some web surfing and some investigation, I decided I
wanted to see what my voice sounded like if I recorded it.
Call it "super curiosity, and boredom"! I was
in no way shape or form trained in radio broadcasting nor do I
even like to be videotaped. However, I was bored one
morning and decided to hook up this crappy little plastic
black microphone that came with my computer. I
downloaded some software and WAA-LAAA!!! The Fantasy Man
was born! I could not figure out what to talk about so
as I started recording myself talking about Fantasy
Baseball. I quickly erased it, started over with a
"Gooooooood Morning Everybody!"(Like Chris Russo
does from the Mike and the Mad Dog Show).....and
eventually rambled on for about 30 minutes thus creating the
very first Fantasy Man Podcast. You can listen to this
first Podcast by clicking here
or by clicking on the Archives
link. I've been working on my technique and you'll
notice over time, I have gotten much better. In the
beginning, I did not get great reviews from some of the
listeners but I did get positive feedback and after a few
weeks of podcasting, my following began to grow. By late
February of 2006, I had this full blown Fantasy Baseball
Website to compliment The Fantasy Man Show.
Fantasy Man's Credibility:
Fantasy Baseball is my life, and has consumed over 10 years of
it. Hey look, any joe-shmo can start up a blog or a website
and call themselves and "expert". I simply
picked up a microphone. But, its the things we do as
"experts" that expand our credibility. My goal
is to be the most recognizable fantasy baseball expert alive,
and so far I am still creeping up the later. As I am the
creator and editor of this fine website, I am a fantasy
baseball podcasting extraordinaire, and can now add the
following to my credibility...
- Member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association
- Fantasy Columnist for the Times Herald-Record, a local NY
newspaper.
- Participated in Krause Publications 2007 Expert Mock Draft
featured in Fantasy Sports Magazine
- The Fantasy Man Show is available on over 65+ podcasting
websites including iTunes
- Participated in 27 fantasy baseball leagues in 2007 and over
250+ in the last 12 years.
- Commissioner and Winner of the 2007 Battle of the Fantasy
Gods Expert League
The Future:
I feel that FBE, The Fantasy Man, and
Fantasy Sports Express, Inc. hasn't yet scraped the iceberg.
The traffic to FBE, the webs presence and the popularity of
The Fantasy man is growing at a rate that is beyond belief to
me. So much in fact that I am having trouble keeping up.
We have plans in the works to launch Fantasy Football Express
this summer and plans to do great things for the fantasy
sports industry. With the help of our fans, readers, and
listeners, we can continue to grow the greatest free fantasy
advice website on the internet!
Thank you for visiting Fantasy Baseball
Express and for listening to The Fantasy Man Show Podcast!
Mike Kuchera
The Fantasy Man
Fantasy Sports Express, Inc.
FantasyBaseballExpress.com
www.fantasybaseballexpress.com
www.thefantasyman.com
Member of the Fantasy Sports Writers Association
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