For most of us, there are very few differences in the way we experience fantasy sports and real sports, at least in the way we interact with the teams involved. You’ll likely never know most of the players on your favorite team any more personally than you’ll know the fantasy ones.
Things are more real for those actually involved in organizations. Coaches, general managers and team presidents get fired all the time, just like players are traded away, and for those inside the team’s facility those moves — justified or not — hit a little bit differently than just another headline coming across a social media timeline.