This one is for all you commissioners out there, you know who you are.

This week, in two seperate leagues I take part in, there was a trade that was agreed upon, but then contested by one of the parties after it was accepted. Here are the two scenarios:

The first one, a guy sent out a whole bunch of proposals. One of the proposals was Hines Ward for LaMont Jordan. The owner who received this proposal accepted it. The guy who offered the proposal suddenly got a case of "buyer's remorse," and text messaged the commissioner saying not to approve the trade yet. Well, the commish approved it anyway. The first owner was, needless to say, a little miffed. He claimed that he didn't want the trade, that the commish screwed him, etc. The commish held his ground, as he should have, and the trade was not rescinded.

The other one was a four-player trade involving LaDanian Tomlinson, JP Losman, Earnest Graham and James Jones for Larry Johnson, Tony Gonzalez, Donovan McNabb and Marques Colston. Shortly after accepting this deal, the guy giving up Tomlinson e-mailed the commish (who also writes the fantasy football column in The Morning Journal) and asked to not approve it yet, that he had received a better offer shortly after accepting the deal and he was going to try to get the first party to reneg. I did him a favor -- I waited for 8 hours. After not hearing another peep, I approved the deal. I let both parties know that the trade was made since it was legal, and if the other guy had a problem with it, let me know. Apparently, he didn't, and the trade was kept. As it is, the guy giving up Tomlinson got the better end of the deal. His team outscored all 11 last week, while the guy with Tomlinson also won, but didn't put up as many points.

In both instances, the commissioner did the right thing. Sure, in most leagues, the commissioner has to approve any and all trades to see if it is fair, but 99 percent of the time, the commish is going to allow the trade to go through. In the first league's case, especially since the guy complaining was the guy who pitched the offer in the first place, he really didn't have a leg to stand on. In the other one, the guy was the accepter of the proposed deal, but, in reality, it's his fault for not waiting to see what else he could get. I gave him a break he probably shouldn't have gotten (I'm a nice guy), but in the end, the trade was approved and both teams were happy.

The moral of this story is, if you make your bed, you better lie in it, regardless of how unhappy you are with the finished product.