Bill Simmons grew his reputation online due to his ability to empathize with the sports fan. Now, within his Week 4 NFL Picks, he has connected with the fantasy football fan:

By the way, can someone start a support group for everyone who took LaDainian Tomlinson over Chris Johnson in a 2009 fantasy draft? I made that move in my East Coast draft; now I just want to sit in a room on Tuesday nights with other depressed fantasy owners as we shake our heads at one another, feel sad and watch video clips of Norv Turner saying that LDT is feeling better but he still might need another week before he’s ready to come back.

(FYI: I continue to hate fantasy football and wonder why I participate in something that gives me a 90 percent chance of being angry and feeling bad about myself. This is fun? It’s fun to watch your first-round pick standing sullenly on the sidelines every week as his backup whom you forgot to pick as a handcuff is putting up points? That’s fun? REALLY? THAT’S FUN? I’M HAVING FUN? #$^@ YOU, TOMLINSON! #$^@ YOU! #$^@ YOU! OK, I feel a little better.)

Struggling with fantasy football has always been an issue for the Sports Guy, as he even tried to reform it a couple of seasons ago with his new fantasy rules.

Good luck this season, Sports Guy. One day the fantasy gods will bless with you with a team that is so invincible that it will be the spitting image of the 2007 NFL AFC Champion Patriots.