Welcome to Fantasyland

If you're like me, you belong to a fanatsy sports league. For those not familiar with the concept, you pick players in a particular sport to be on your team and their performance earns you points which determines your standing in the league. Also, it's a way for grown men to generate interest in any sporting event, plaguing their significant others with the excuse 'I just want to see how my players do'
My players. That's right. I bet you didn't know who owned Michael Vick. You may think it's the Atlanta Falcons, but really, it's me. He's been there to help me out on a few occasions when I've needed to move my piano.

Anyways, in my particular league, there always seems to be a cloud of controversy or mistrust or something in the air which inevitably leads to me finding myself in the middle of a big mess. This isn't fair and this doesn't make sense...trading draft picks for players you're going to cut anyway and the number of players you can hold over from the previous year have been two major negotiating points over the past few years. Every year I tell myself this will be the last year, but I can't seem to get away from it. I've spent a lot of time, and money, on my 'team' and something in me just can't let go.
It's not all bad, I do have fun and I'm learning how to resolve major conflicts between multiple parties.
Years from now, when I'm negotiating peace deals with foreign nations for the US, people will ask me how I'm able to find common ground and come to a reasonable solution. "I used to be a fantasy football owner" will be my appropriate response.