TOP 10 SIGNS YOUR FANTASY BASEBALL TEAM WON'T CONTEND THIS YEAR

by DMtShooter, Five Tool Tool

10. Trade requests come with notes like "Are you still playing?"

9. Your early offensive leader is a guy you didn't draft (Keep it up, Jason Kendall!)

8. The hot rookie you took a flier on is either in the minor leagues, in jail, or has Dusty Baker as a manager

7. People think your waiver wire requests are admirable, in a cute and doomed sort of way

6. The owner in your league who is always hammering people with bad trade requests is giving you a wide berth

5. Your closers are JJ Putz, Trevor Hoffman and Huston Street

5. Your big consolation is that it's not a keeper league

4. You wonder if not paying the league fee is such a bad thing (it isn't... provided you enjoy being the worst person in the world, and eternal damnation)

3. You loaded up on Tigers, and were really counting on a Jason Giambi comeback

2. You built your team around sound SPs like Sabathia, Beckett and Oswalt

1. You keep telling yourself that it's still early, but can't stop shaking and weeping