[USML Announce] Two And A Half Leagues Idol Winick Says "Stop Playing"

[Brad Jansen]

>From AP WIRES:

  Fantasy baseball has a new critic--and he's on the inside.
  In a YouTube video, Jeffrey Horatio Winick, who plays the role of  a
fantasy baseball genius in the USML sitcom, tells viewers not to play
fantasy baseball because it contains "filth." His comments are part of a
religious testimony given to the Church Of Latter Day Baseball Geeks.
  "If you play fantasy baseball, please stop playing and stop reading my
advice columns. I don't want to play anymore. Please stop filling your
spreadshets with filth," he says.
   He continues: "Do some research on the effects of my advice to other
players, and I promise you you'll have a decsion to make when it comes to
playing fantasy baseball and especially when you read my baseball notes.
It's bad news. You cannot be a true Blocker-fearing person and play fantasy
baseball like I do. I know I can't."
    Winick, 53, who began playing fantasy baseball as a boy, has grown up
during the USML's several-year run.
    The USML comedy series has been criticized at times for its
child-oriented content. And it ran into a publicity buzzsaw in spring 2011
when star owner Andy Klein was sanctioned after making disparaging comments
about Winick's picture in a fantasy baseball magazine, though it recovered
when Winick traded Mike Trout to the Riptorns last spring.
    Rich Robbins, who produces the USML, declined comment on Winick's
statements.
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