of Fantasy Baseball on Yahoo! and I've always been competitive in every league I've joined (except the NCAA March Madness Brackets, and Hockey).

To date, I've been in 6 leagues (in one currently) and I have four second place trophies, and one first place trophy, while I am currently first in a 12 team mixed Head-to-Head league. So it's safe to say I dominate my group of friends in fantasy baseball :) The funny thing is, I tend to think that at least 2,3 of my yearly opponents know more about the players than I do. One buys a Baseball Prospectus prior to each year's draft and knows it front and backward, yet his team has never won.

I've always played mixed leagues, and I play either Roto or Head-to-Head.

I love it. I also do Football and Basketball, the latter of which I also tend to do well. And it's not that I don't know my Football, I just never seem to do that well. I've only won one (1) fantasy football league in my 4 years of doing it. Fantasy Baseball is a great way to keep yourself interested in sports during these long summer days outside of Football season.

I can't imagine going through a season without fantasy baseball...it's just an enjoyable accompaniment to the year.  I feel it adds to my appreciation and knowledge of the game too...tracking all these different players, learning the names of upcoming prospects, etc.  It makes me pay attention to the rest of MLB.

I don't find too many conflicts with my real-life fandom.  I might not start a guy if he's going against the Sox, but that's just a judgment call I'll make the day of game.  I have no set rules for those situations.

My problem this year is that I crossed the line with number of teams.  Having to use a second yahoo ID to get into leagues #5 and #6 means you're in too many.  I think yahoo researched the topic, and set the limit at 4 leagues per ID to protect people's sanity.  I mean, I know which players I own, but I can't tell you in which specific league I own them.  I do know that I only root for Hafner in one league...

Here's where I stand currently...these are all mixed leagues:

• H2H, non keeper, $ payout-  1/12
  
• Roto, keeper (6 players)-  4/12
  
• Roto, non keeper-  1/11
  
• H2H, keeper (5)-  6/14
  
• Points, non keeper, bragging rights-  3/15
  
• H2H, dynasty (24)-  2/16

Looking like a pretty solid year for me.

I do fantasy football and basketball too, but they aren't nearly as much fun as baseball. Football is far too dependent on dumb luck (which RB's get injured and which don't) and basketball just gets tedious (although not as tedious as actually watching NBA games).  I only do a single non-keeper league in those sports.

because it's another reason to pay even more attention to baseball.  I'm in a league where I end up not being able to do the live draft because of school commitments and having Yahoo draft for me, while most others draft for themselves.  I actually find that I like this better.  It's harder, because you usually end up with guys that are injury risks or way overvalued if you're in a decent league (which I am), but I get to play "Nab Every Young Guy  Ever".  I finished 3rd last year because I decided that Morneau's line drive percentage was way too high for him to keep sucking, and added Scott Olsen and Josh Johnson on top of that, in addition to having Yahoo draft Jose Reyes for me.  This year has been the year of position players, so I've got Ryan Braun, Kelly Johnson, Hunter Pence, among others and I've been picking my spots against shitty NL teams with pitchers.  I started off the season much like the White Sox, with my hitters in a huge slump, but I've been on a hot streak of late and it's been a lot of fun.

My only problem is that there's this one guy who always picks up the real stars-in-waiting before I do.  Is there a feed that lets you know when guys you're waiting for get put in the system?  He beat me to Lincecum and Gallardo this year and Hamels last year.

Yahoo H2H 12-team Mixed, Non-Keeper

C - McCann
1B - Hafner (and yes, I can root for him when he's not facing the Sox)
2B - K. Johnson/Kinsler
3B - Miggy Cabrera
SS - Orlando Cabrera
OF - Abreu, Matsui, Willits
DL - Baldelli

SP - Lackey, Zambrano (it hurts to have to root for the Cubs every 5 games, but at least their games don't affect the Sox), Dice K, Oliver Perez, Gorzelanny, Bartolo, Gallardo
RP - Hoffman, Jones, Capps, Accardo
DL - B. Myers (the 'B' stands for 'Beatmywife')

C: Johjima
1B: Young D
2B: Roberts B
3B: Cabrera M
SS: Renteria E
OF: Lee C/Sheff/Guerrero
Util:Willingham J
Bench: Kotchman C

SP: Schilling, Haren, Harang, Buerhle, Carmona, and Mitre
RP: Embree, Sherrill, Smith, and Guerrier

I'm in a Yahoo Rotisserie League (12 teams) where point totals are based on 16 different stat categories (8 offensive/8 pitching).  I heard head to head leagues are much more enjoyable.  The team I have is hovering between 2nd and 3rd but nowhere near the team in 1st.  Most of the pitching (with exception to Haren, Schilling, and Harang) I picked off waivers.

My one complaint about my fantasy league is that I receive some crazy ass trade proposals from motherfuckers trying to fleece me.

I'm following my team more closely this year since the sox season is basically over (IMO).

I benched Kinsler tonight and he went yard twice aganist Sean Marshall.