Thanks, Dale. I'm not going to worry about it for now, now that I know that there is a newer patch. If I do have it happen again, I'll repost with my problems.
Just FYI, they both happened before the All-Star Break (it was May of a 1981 historical season using the ARod/Garlon rosters), the version was 1.0.2.12258, the system was Windows 2000, and the rest of the specifications I'm not sure about because I was playing on my computer at work.

It was probably a crash due to bad karma then, kind of a "serves you right for slacking off" written into the code.