Enter The Zone

According to Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Baseball, "The Zone" is managed by the infamous Slavoj Zizek, whose name-accents I can't accurately reproduce here. According to Wikipedia, Zizek is a a "Lacanian Marxist sociologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and cultural critic." Busy guy. No wonder his Fantasy team is on autopilot.

In truth (although really, what is truth?), "The Zone" is the unloved robot baseball-child of artist and former Grinnellian, Nathan T.A. Here he is in front of a photocopied enlargement of Mordecai's freshman year ID photo:

I saw Nate last night at his MFA Thesis exhibition (congratulations, Nate!), and asked him a few questions about Fantasy baseball. Here's the conversation:

Jenni: So, let's talk about baseball.
Nate: (laughs) Okay.
Jenni: I hate to say it, but your team isn't doing very well.
Nate: Oh, I know....
Jenni: Really? Have you logged in since the season started?
Nate: Nope. It's a case of complete neglect.
Jenni: Well, I told Kei I would ask you about your team....
Nate: Hmm. I can say something about A-Rod. (laughs)
Jenni: Let me get out my notebook.
Nate: I'm very excited about A-Rod's return to the team and his future this year. He has a bright future and I'm totally unconcerned about his steroid use. It's not even an issue. I find him to be a very attractive young man and I think that the separation from his wife was the right thing. How's that?
Jenni: Good.
Nate: Feel free to embellish that in any way. (laughs)
Jenni: Oh, I will.

WHAT IS TRUTH?


I mean, here's Kei wearing a Cubs hat at a cross-dressing Harris party. Was Kei a Cubs fan? Is she now, secretly? Where stand the borders between Fantasy, Life and Lies?

To distort a quotation from another famous cultural critic, Theodor Adorno:

"It is self-evident that nothing concerning [Fantasy Baseball] is self-evident anymore. Not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist."