Hope springs eternal for all fantasy baseball owners after their drafts.  After sizing up their team, the smack talk begins about how amazing their lineup is and how their pitching will not only tout a low WHIP but will dominate the "K" category.  And then, the first week hits.  Hitters put up 0-15 starts, while pitchers’ WHIPs read more like a K/9 ratio.  Fantasy owner doubt suddenly creeps in.  Is Jose Reyes going to have a subpar year?  Is Johan Santana going to stay Santana-esque?

I understand fantasy doubts.  In fact, I like to help stoke them.  Why should I comfort you that your number one pick will work out?  If you don't know that, trade him to me.  I'll take him.  The true difference between fantasy baseball and fantasy football is learning the length of a season, learning the perspective of the performance of one or two weeks versus one or two months, learning the ability to torture your fellow participants without doing yourself in because Carlos Lee is not hitting home runs as fast as Justin Upton is.  So the lesson for April, in the vein of the Kansas City fans who sat out in forty degree weather, is to chill out.