Why I Hate Fantasy Baseball, Part X?

So there you are, NateColbertTwinbill, running away with your league's regular season title. You finish your year with a cool .632 winning percentage and with a 34 1/2 game lead over the second place club.

Your club is a virtual who's who: Sexson, Glaus, Figgins, Peralta, Delgado, Abreu, Beltran, Huff are some of your hitters. Your pitching staff is unreal. Ben Sheets and Rich Harden got hurt, but you remain unconcerned because you're rolling out the likes of Prior, Schilling, Livan Hernandez, Garland, Javier Vazquez, Zach Day, K-Rod, Tom Gordon, Scott Schields, Brandon Fuentes, Dustin Hermanson. Life is good. You're going to own once the playoffs start. You get a bye while the minions slug it out for the honor of playing you.

Then in one week versus the fourth place finisher, it all comes crashing down. You lose 7-6. You're in the third place consolation game. Luckily, you've got two weeks to win this one. That great pitching staff? Wins zero games. Zero. Gets killed in ERA, WHIP and K's as well. "That opponent must've had some staff," you say. A.J. Burnett, Jay Seo, John Lackey, Danny Haren, Paul Byrd, Cliff Lee.

But I'm not bitter.