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Ramon Martinez is causing Mr. Crowder to gulp many aspirin. (Allsport)

We began a Rotisserie style season with three guys my age and each of our fathers. This worked as far as my motives went, and I found that I enjoy baseball more when I am responsible for compiling the stats for a league.

Three weeks ago, my dad, best friend and myself decided to create a new all-star league where we could draft from any team. The purpose was to generate interest in the teams we weren't using in the other league.

This being the first time I had ever been in more than one league, I had no way to forsee the horrors that awaited me. First of all, my addiction to Baseball Tonight has become worse than ever. Secondly, I have numerous players on more than one team, causing ulcer-like pains when Pedro Martinez falls apart on me (seemingly a very common occurrence recently). However, the worst problem is watching a game between guys that are on one of my teams, and simultaneously on rival teams in the other league. I go into indecision overload wondering which guys to route for. Add this to the normal maladies suffered by the Fantasy baseball player, including what we call Hit Batsman Syndrome, and you can see that this is a very painful disease. (For those of you not familiar with Hit Batsman Syndrome, or HBS, it is the common term for the stress caused when seeing your pitcher pitch against your batter. You can't route for the batter, as it would hurt your pitcher, and vice versa, so you end up hoping for a Hit Batsman -- which doesn't harm the batter (unless thrown too hard) and in most leagues doesn't count against your pitcher unless he later scores.

This is related to URS (Unearned Run Syndrome), which is when your pitcher is pitching against your favorite team -- causing you to route for errors early in every inning so that your team can win the game, but your pitcher only gives up unearned runs.