The Cruisers got absolutely manhandled last week. Now 2-3, three games out of the division lead and a game out of the wild card (with a very rough stretch ahead), my season is just about done.

Maybe I should just concede that I don't have a good team, I won't have a good team, and I should just finish paying off the season and dump what good players I have. </self-destructive>

Seriously, though: I had Chase Utley, Roger Clemens, Mike Mussina, Akinori Otsuka, Travis Hafner, Jason Giambi, and Pudge Rodriguez (amongst others) on my fantasy baseball team this past year, and yet I ended up 6th, ahead of an utterly hapless manager and a dead team. (Before you get started, T, Santana, Nathan, Mauer, and Torii Hunter all went earlyish in the draft, I had no room for Cuddyer, and Liriano didn't stay on the wire long. I was not going to place my season on the shoulders of Boof Bonser.)

And in football, I have Grossman & Leftwich at QB, Jeff Wilkins at kicker, and the Saints defense. All great units, but I get nothing out of my backs & receivers.

There is little more frustrating for a fantasy owner to get anemic production from the heart of one's lineup. It's akin to having the best icing known to mankind on a dry, stale cake.

Anyway, I have to write an email to a co-sub. Trying to find a way to nicely word "Why don't you use the unit sheets you already have instead of tasking me to do it for you?"

That's the problem with big nationwide corporations: the office that ends up working on a particular project isn't the local office.

-KIE, who could go off on the words "Korea" and "nuclear" being in the same sentence, but it isn't the time or the place.