For years I have gritted my teeth every time I clicked on a story on ESPN.com and got the "This story is only for 'INSIDERS'." My thinking was always "Why would I pay for information that I can probably get from other webpages if I just spent the time to look for it?".
Now that I started and am in the process of developing The QB Club, one of the main focus points will be the NFL Draft. And like it or not, agree with them or not, Mel Kiper and Todd McShay get a lot of publicity for their draft rankings. They are privy to information I do not necessarily have and most likely have inside sources that I will never get.
So... I am contmeplating doing the unthinkable and paying to become an Insider. This goes against every fiber of my being. I feel like an intervention is necessary. Somebody stop me!
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I have a stupid policy to not buy Insider. It mostly goes back to the principal of not paying ESPN $10 dollars. But I actually have another horror story. In the Semi-Finals of my 2007 Fantasy Playoffs I read a free sample of the Bears-Vikings Week 15 Insider. I had an agonozing decision on whether or not to start the Bears Adrian Peterson (the bad one), or the Vikings Chester Taylor. Needless to say I let Insider convince me to start Chester Taylor. ESPN said that the Williamses (Pat and Kevin) would be too much to deal with for the running game. Little did I know the Bears would swing screen passes to Peterson for the entire 1st quarter. Of course, starting Peterson would have given me the win, and with Chester Taylor I lost by (you guessed it) 1 pt. It's a night I'll never forget and its costs me roughly 600 bucks.
ReplyDeleteThanks ESPN Insider.