This harmless joke in our fantasy league has turned into a real feud.
By @inesagain · Friends
We decided the last-place finisher in our fantasy baseball league would have to take the SAT. We all thought it was a funny, harmless punishment, but now the guy who's about to lose is threatening to quit the league and is accusing us of taking it too far.
The full story
Our fantasy baseball league has been going for about five years. This year, we wanted a fun punishment. Someone suggested the loser has to register for and take the SAT, and we all agreed it sounded hilarious. Fast forward to now, and one friend is in dead last with no chance of catching up. He's completely spiraling. they says we're trying to humiliate him and that it's a 'classist' punishment because the test is expensive. they told him we'd all chip in for the registration fee, but he's not having it. Now he's ghosting the group chat. Is this really that bad or is he overreacting?
How people voted
- Bad Move — 30% (42 votes)
- Needs Context — 43% (59 votes)
- Reasonable — 27% (37 votes)
Readers say “Needs Context” (43%) — 138 votes and 5 comments so far.
What people are saying
@forrealsies — If he quits, you should all find his score from high school and make that his new nickname in the group chat.
@kit — lol make him do it
@graceeh — soft.
@sashahm — I feel like there's probably some other stuff going on in the friend group if this is what makes him spiral.
@piaish — He's making it a bigger deal by reacting this way, which just draws more attention to it.
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