Sometimes my sense of humor gets me in trouble. I'm sure that's a shock to my beloved regular readers. Or maybe not. I guess it depends on whether that second sentence was perceived as the sardonic statement that it was intended to be or not.
Anyway, I got in some minor trouble with the FFL league I'm in with a smartass comment I left on the main page of the website as the website league manager, and I'd like some opinions on whether it was out of line or not. First some background.
This fantasy football league has been around for about fifteen years. Six or seven out of ten of us are charter members, so we've known each other for a long time. The two most recent members are the league commissioner's(and founder) sons. Last year was the first time we used an online free service to keep track of the league and make it visible to everyone. Prior to that, the commissioner snailmailed updates out to everyone.
Putting the league on the web was my idea and I first proposed it for 2007. It was received poorly then, to say the least, but I managed to get seven team owners online last year. This year, I was down to the last two most-Luddite, M and S(must not switch that order, that would not do at all). Well, miracle of miracles, last week M decided to join the league online, leaving S as the last holdout. Everyone in the league knows this. So last Sunday I put this up on the league's home page:
Don't faint, but Mxxxx may actually be online this weekend. Please continue your prayers to St. Jude regarding Sxxxxx.
St. Jude being the patron saint of lost causes, of course. Well, I was absolutely floored when I got a call the other night wondering what had happened to S. Was he ok? It seems that three or four team owners saw that and thought that S had experienced some kind of ill fate and that he truly needed our prayers. I felt bad that some had become alarmed at my snark, which I thought was pretty self-evident as such, given recent history and the context with M.
So the question is: Was that a reasonable bit of snark, or did I cross a line? I'm truly interested in some perspective here. I need some perspective here.
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