The Trouble with a Lockout...

... is that it makes writing a blog about fantasy football so difficult.
As this post hits the Internet, the National Football League and its players are still fighting each other over a boatload of money. However, by the time you read this, the owners and players may or may not have voted to settle their differences and get back to doing the things that generate said money. I imagine it's a little like a pregnant woman being days away from her due date and not being able to plan a lot of things because she could go into labor at any minute.
And speaking of painful things, the lockout complicates every injury-related issue in the football world. Take Peyton Manning, who has a pain in his neck (instead of being one for many people). How seriously should the Indianapolis Colts take his pain if they don't know when the season, or even the preseason, is going to start? And how are we as fantasy players supposed to gauge the relative value of a less-than-100% Manning if we don't know how many games everyone else is going to miss because of the lockout?
Then you have all the fantasy football magazines that hit the newsstands this summer, even though so many of the typical off-season questions have been put on hold. How can you take a fantasy football magazine seriously if it can't tell you where Kevin Kolb will be playing this fall? Surely, if there had not been a lockout, the Philadelphia Eagles would have resolved that matter long ago.
Multiply that question by about a hundred, even if most of the questions would be shrugged off in the fantasy sphere (Carson Palmer? No, thanks.), and you have the recipe for massive amounts of uncertainty -- the worst enemy of a fantasy football players.
Meanwhile, we, like the folks in the opening scene of "Casablanca," sit and wait for a CBA.
And wait.
And wait.
And wait.