Troubled Fantasy

It can give the baseball fanatic a good deal of pleasure to play MLB fantasy baseball, in my case the 2007 Open. The player has a good deal of freedom to pick team members and choose a starting lineup. Then you collect a certain number of points each day, depending on how well your players do in their real-life games.

The problem is that once you choose your lineup for the week, you can't change it. So if you put a player in your lineup and that player doesn't play on any given day for whatever reason, you can't put in a substitute. And you can't collect any points for a player who doesn't play.

I grant you that this problem doesn't equal the problems of war, famine, drought, hurricanes, and all the other problems in the world. But when we play games, we want to forget those problems, don't we? We don't deny that they exist, but we need a break.

So if the MLB doesn't mind, I want to be able to change my lineup every day.