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We’ve all been around the fantasy game long enough to know that we are each just one small step away from having our season completely ruined by a rash of injuries. Whether it’s our top pick in the draft, a collection of mid-round picks or some depressing combination of both, the loss of key players can send you into an early tailspin, nearly impossible from which to escape. Sure, there’s the waiver wire, but blowing through your entire FAAB budget by Week 3 is only going to mask the problem and delay the inevitable. And if your league just uses simple waiver priority, this early in the season, by the time you’re done waiting your turn, that faint glimmer of hope has now become the snuffed out pilot light to your team’s lifeline.

So when the injury bug reared its ugly head in Week 2, the best I, or anyone, could do was grit my teeth, take my loss and come up with a plan of attack. Jamaal Charles left with a bum wheel, as did Ryan Mathews, Robert Griffin III and Vernon Davis. Knowshon Moreno has a bum wing, Mark Ingram’s hand has an issue, A.J. Green’s toe is funky, Eric Decker is now hamstrung and DeSean Jackson is also banged up. And those are just the injuries from Week 2. Add those to the nightmares that are Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, DeAngelo Williams and Maurice Jones-Drew and suddenly I’m way too anxious for the 2015 fantasy baseball season.

Now obviously I don’t have all of these guys on one team, but a combination of several on each of my squads and I’m just sitting there dumfounded and 0-2 in nearly every league. What’s a girl to do? The panic button is well within reach; closer than my scheduled waiver priority, that’s for sure. I’ve been hit with injuries before, but this seems even worse than most years.

Am I worried, though? Not at all.

Why? 

Because of my new best friend.

Everyone needs a best friend – someone to help them through the rough times, a shoulder to cry on, someone to lend a sympathetic ear. You know, someone who’s there to help pick you up when you’re down at your lowest. Best friends are awesome. They’re….well….the best!

Like my new best friend in this one league? He saw me hurting with the loss of both Jamaal Charles and Vernon Davis and just as all good best friends do, he offered to help me out. It’s a 14-team PPR league with fairly deep benches so the waiver wire is pretty scant. But he told me that he would give me Knile Davis and Charles Clay and all I would have to give him is Le’Veon Bell. What a cool guy, right? Super best friend just looking to help his best friend out. I’m sure that I could go the rest of the way this season with Danny Woodhead as my No. 2 running back, right?

In another league of mine, I have a really super-cool new best friend there too. I lost A.J. Green, RG3 and Mathews all in one fell swoop! Of all the luck, right? Fortunately, my new best friend was right there to help pick me up. He said that if I gave him a hurt Green, whose injury will probably linger all season long and never be right again, and Brandon Marshall, then he would hook me up big time with Russell Wilson, Chris Ivory and Brian Quick. He also said that if I didn’t like Quick then I could have my choice of either Hakeem Nicks or Andrew Hawkins. Such an awesome guy. To think that there is such selflessness in fantasy football. It kind of gets me a little choked up.

Or how about this big ol’ bro-hug I got from my new best friend in this other league? I am currently dealing with the nightmare that is the Adrian Peterson situation. I also lost Knowshon Moreno and Eric Decker. Am I worried? Not with my new BFF, I’m not! If I give him Demaryius Thomas and Zac Stacy, he’s totally going to hook me up with Matt Asiata (he beat me out for him last week), Carlos Hyde, Wes Welker and Greg Jennings. Sweet, right?

There’s absolutely nothing better than having a best friend in your fantasy football league. It’s like a warm, fuzzy blanket and a hot cup of cocoa on a cold winter’s day. To know that someone has my back like that in my fantasy football league makes me feel like I can withstand any injuries that get thrown my way. I just hope no one accuses me of any collusion.