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Speaker 2: Hello, everybody, Welcome back in to the third segment of
Speaker 2: the cycle. This week, I am once again Mike mahyor
Speaker 2: still Mike Maher and I am joined once again by
Speaker 2: Kelly Kirby and Kelly, how are you doing and are
Speaker 2: you ready to close out this week's series of the cycle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm doing better and better than More Awake.
Speaker 3: I'm way better than worm but uh yeah, No, I'm
Speaker 3: doing well and I'm excited to close it out because
Speaker 3: I love talking pitching, so this should be great.
Speaker 2: I do too in a bunch of leagues where I
Speaker 2: stream pitching by a choice or necessity, or I just
Speaker 2: do it to torture myself. But I like kind of
Speaker 2: targeting matchups that I like. Sometimes I'll do like a
Speaker 2: week or two in advance, see if I can kind
Speaker 2: of sneak pitchers in that way, Like we talked in
Speaker 2: a previous video, I kind of snuck Tony Gonsolin in
Speaker 2: before people were thinking about him. That went very well
Speaker 2: twayas Myers not going so well for me. But yeah,
Speaker 2: let's get right into it. We often use when we
Speaker 2: when we talk pitching streamers, we kind of go day
Speaker 2: by day because some people like to We've heard, you know,
Speaker 2: some requests. Some people like to have pitching streamers for
Speaker 2: every day because they're in daily, daily leagues and they
Speaker 2: can just kind of like rotate through or pick which
Speaker 2: ones they want, whether they have like daily transactions or
Speaker 2: just daily lineups. They like to have daily options, and
Speaker 2: so we break it down. We start with Monday, go
Speaker 2: all the way through through Sunday, and we use the
Speaker 2: Fantasy Pro's Pitching Streamer tool, which is a really cool
Speaker 2: tool that we have on the site where you can
Speaker 2: just put it, you know, open it up, you sink
Speaker 2: your leagues, and it shows you who's available in your
Speaker 2: league and their matchup and whether or not it's a
Speaker 2: good or bad matchup, and you know some recent will
Speaker 2: but numbers and so yeah, it's very useful for someone
Speaker 2: like me. Streams pretty consistently, and so let's get right
Speaker 2: into it. Kelly, you are the person who put the
Speaker 2: names in the sheet, so I will toss it over
Speaker 2: to you and we can start going through starting with Monday.
Speaker 2: Who who do you like to stream this week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was really interesting. The top VBR
Speaker 3: pitcher on Monday is Matthew Boyd for the Cubs up
Speaker 3: against San Francisco. But it's at home, so I wanted
Speaker 3: to pick that one. But being at home makes me
Speaker 3: a little bit nervous about that game if the wind
Speaker 3: is blowing out, which it seems to have been a
Speaker 3: lot this year. So I actually jumped down, and you know,
Speaker 3: this will be the only white sock that I probably
Speaker 3: ever recommend. But I'm curious about streaming Shane Smith against
Speaker 3: Kansas City. I think that he matches up okay with them,
Speaker 3: and you know, he's got twenty six strikeouts and thirty
Speaker 3: two innings easy areas two point two three, whip is
Speaker 3: one o eight. So I've just I thought that he
Speaker 3: would be a good option just to see if Kansas
Speaker 3: City is continuing to struggle to get on base that
Speaker 3: he could provide some value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Shane Smith a lot. I edited him
Speaker 2: in a few Dynasty leagues, either earlier the season or
Speaker 2: right before the season started. I watched him pitch earlier
Speaker 2: in the year and I was just really impressed. I
Speaker 2: think the wheels kind of came off late in that game,
Speaker 2: but he may have just been in there a little
Speaker 2: bit too long. But I remember watching it and I
Speaker 2: was like, this guy's pretty good. You know, I kind
Speaker 2: of like them. What I'm see here, he's got some
Speaker 2: juice and yeah, I'm seeing here in the phantash prost
Speaker 2: Pitcher streaming tool that the Kansas City Royals are highlighted
Speaker 2: in green, and green means good. As we know, it
Speaker 2: does look like he's wind up going against called Reagan's.
Speaker 2: But if Reagan's is going to make that start though,
Speaker 2: we're not sure, so yeah, would probably wouldn't want to
Speaker 2: line up against him. But also we don't know if
Speaker 2: I think Reagan's throwing a bullpen today, possibly right now
Speaker 2: while we're talking called Reagan's throwing a bullpen session to
Speaker 2: see that sort growing fields, which I feel like he
Speaker 2: probably should have just gone on the IL. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a magor league manager. I don't always Usually
Speaker 2: it's the opposite. I'm targeting, targeting the white Socks offense,
Speaker 2: and I'm pitching streaming pitchers. But you know, i'd like
Speaker 2: a Shane Smith. I can get down with that. Some
Speaker 2: other name is potentially available in your leagues for Monday.
Speaker 2: Are Matthew Boyd. Maybe he's doing all right, not too bad.
Speaker 2: He's he's available in some leagues, maybe not some others.
Speaker 2: It took like twenty six percent consensus roster. It's probably
Speaker 2: dragged down by ESPN a little bit. I don't want
Speaker 2: to do a landing route against the Cubs. Tobias Myers
Speaker 2: one more time, Tobias Myers against the Astros struggling off
Speaker 2: Astros offense. I will be streaming Tobias Myers. I don't
Speaker 2: even know if you can consider it streaming if I
Speaker 2: stream the guy every week because he's just on my
Speaker 2: teams right now.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I also like an HJA Smith Shaver, who's been picturing
Speaker 2: really well. He's got the Reds, but not in Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: so that's good at Cincinnati, bad against Cincinnati somewhere else good.
Speaker 2: But that's enough about Monday. Let's go over to Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Who do you got for Tuesday?
Speaker 3: On Tuesday? In our last segment, we called Stephen Matt's
Speaker 3: a pitcher who exists, and on Tuesday he is facing
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh at home. So I and he he is not
Speaker 3: rostered very many places. So I feel like that that's
Speaker 3: a decent streamer, just again Pittsburgh versus lefties. He could
Speaker 3: function as a major league pitcher, maybe get you a win.
Speaker 3: So that's who I'm going with.
Speaker 2: I was surprised to see he already has twenty four
Speaker 2: innings pitched. I feel like he just came back. But
Speaker 2: I guess he had been in the bullpen and now
Speaker 2: he's just now starting because I thought he was like
Speaker 2: hurt and I came back, but I was like, how
Speaker 2: does this guy have twenty four innings pitch? But he
Speaker 2: was in the bullpen and now he's starting. He's made
Speaker 2: two starts. But yeah, so far, so good. If you
Speaker 2: want to talk yourself out of it, you know, we
Speaker 2: talked to the previous segment about looking at like fip
Speaker 2: X PIP Sierra. The pick the one you want right
Speaker 2: now is ERA is one point five and if you're
Speaker 2: pro Stephen Mattz, his FIP is one point eight nine.
Speaker 2: If you're anti Steven Matts, his X fips three point
Speaker 2: four nine. So it depends on you know which narrative
Speaker 2: you're trying to spin, but I do like it. I'd
Speaker 2: like the matchup. You know, the Pirates are a bottom
Speaker 2: five offense according to our pictures streaming tool, so again,
Speaker 2: not the not the worst options. How about Wednesday?
Speaker 3: On Wednesday, I have Michael Waka if he's available. I
Speaker 3: think his roster percentage is slightly higher, so he might
Speaker 3: not be, but in some leagues he might be sitting
Speaker 3: out there and he gets the White Sox at home.
Speaker 3: So I will take that all day long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the classic strategy of going against the White
Speaker 2: Sox offense when you can, as opposed to targeting their pictures. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm not the biggest Michael Waka fan. I don't know
Speaker 2: that there are a ton of really big Michael Waker
Speaker 2: fans out there. But you know, again, he's a guy
Speaker 2: he's been like. He's like a high floor, low ceiling
Speaker 2: kind of guy who he probably won't get you killed,
Speaker 2: but he's not gonna He doesn't strike out a ton
Speaker 2: of batters. So though twenty six and thirty two innings,
Speaker 2: it's that's fine. You know, it's not bad it might
Speaker 2: might may be able to get more out of the
Speaker 2: the White Sox. I do want to mention I forgot
Speaker 2: to mention when I was talking before about Stephen Matt again,
Speaker 2: that ideal does look like he's lined up to go
Speaker 2: against Paul Skins, and that doesn't that doesn't always matter
Speaker 2: with the Pirates because a lot of times they just
Speaker 2: do don't give him any run support. So maybe that's
Speaker 2: actually a good thing. Maybe you know, you'll have to
Speaker 2: deal with like five or six shot out anings form
Speaker 2: Paul Skins, But then you know, as long as you
Speaker 2: don't give up a ton of unds, maybe you still
Speaker 2: get a win. Other names for Windsday. Let's see, I'm
Speaker 2: not seeing a lot of other intriguing options. Quinn Priester
Speaker 2: against the Astros. I've I've not enjoyed the Quinn Priester
Speaker 2: experience so far, so I'm probably not gonna dive back
Speaker 2: into that. He's someone I've streamed recently, Probably not gonna,
Speaker 2: probably not gonna go with that one. Probably I'd rather
Speaker 2: go with a Michael Waka Tanner Hawk against the Rangers.
Speaker 2: I'm not ready to get hurt by Tanner Halck yet Again,
Speaker 2: He's looked. He looked better in his most recent start,
Speaker 2: but I'm not ready to get hurt again. We talk
Speaker 2: about low Lawyer, there's a low floor there. We saw
Speaker 2: it well. Yeah, I like the option of Waka against
Speaker 2: the White Sox. You rarely go wrong targeting the White
Speaker 2: Sox because the bad start against White Sox is not
Speaker 2: like a bad start against the Doctors. They are different,
Speaker 2: different realms. Thursday we have blank. It seems like we
Speaker 2: don't like Thursday.
Speaker 3: We don't like Thursday. First, there's just a lot of
Speaker 3: there's a lot of players who are just highly rostered going.
Speaker 3: So that's where it gets a little bit trickier. And
Speaker 3: you know, the only one that I was kind of
Speaker 3: interested in was Joisey Soriano against Toronto at home. But
Speaker 3: that's not not enough that I would want to pick
Speaker 3: him up and stream.
Speaker 2: Him Thursday small slate day. So that's that's kind of
Speaker 2: where we're run into trouble there. I do want to
Speaker 2: double check one thing though, Sugano going up against the Twins,
Speaker 2: but it looks like that may have changed. I think
Speaker 2: it changed, so it looks like we had Sugano on Saturday,
Speaker 2: but they have changed their rotation. So it looks like
Speaker 2: Sugano is going to are He's no longer starting Saturday
Speaker 2: against the Angels. He's now starting Thursday against the Twins.
Speaker 2: So not to spoil our Saturday pick, but it was
Speaker 2: tell me, Yuki Sigano, do you still like him as
Speaker 2: a Thursday streamer against the Twins or are you out
Speaker 2: now that it's not the Angels?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I mean I yeah, because I saw him on here
Speaker 3: and I thought that seemed interesting that I hadn't looked
Speaker 3: at him. But in Minnesota right now, with this like
Speaker 3: it's been pretty cold, it's been pretty like crappy weather overall,
Speaker 3: so I don't hate it. They've been struggling a little
Speaker 3: bit too, so so the I I could stream him
Speaker 3: for that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Thursday, smallest light day, not a whole lot
Speaker 2: out there. There's a few bigger names pitching, so that
Speaker 2: also decreases the available streamers. Other names Brian Bayo. He
Speaker 2: pitched pretty well in his first start, but still kind
Speaker 2: of like, kind of tough to trust, even though it
Speaker 2: is against the Rangers. But of Courseiger will be back
Speaker 2: by then, so it will be a rain offense with
Speaker 2: Corey Seeger and without Jake Berger. You don't get that
Speaker 2: free out anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Other than that, like Jack Lider, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: getting down with Jack Lider against the Red Sox in Boston.
Speaker 2: Not that the Red Sox offense has been great, but
Speaker 2: anything can happen in Fenway Park. So I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to take that risk with the Jack Lder stream. And
Speaker 2: everyone else is either going to be not available or
Speaker 2: I'm not interested. So let's jump over to Friday. Where
Speaker 2: do you got for Friday?
Speaker 3: On Friday, I have Jose Kintana. I laugh because I
Speaker 3: laugh because Kantana and Matt's are like the same picture
Speaker 3: in my brain, just that lefty that you're like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: so apparently he is still here. He's I don't love
Speaker 3: the matchup against He's in Tampa against Tampa, but he's
Speaker 3: also just he's in kind of one of those modes
Speaker 3: he gets in where he's just firing and and and
Speaker 3: getting people out, and so I feel like that's a
Speaker 3: winnable game for the Brewers and and I don't mind. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would be fine streaming him, I guess, you know,
Speaker 3: since I know it's hard when Patrick Corman is also
Speaker 3: on the list, but I would stick with Kintana on
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like at some point the wheels are going to
Speaker 2: come off for Jose Cantana. You just have to hope
Speaker 2: you're not. You know, it's like hot potato. You're not
Speaker 2: the one holding You're not the one holding the Jose
Speaker 2: Antana when he when he goes off. He's an interesting one.
Speaker 2: I like I've mentioned, I feel if it was last
Speaker 2: week three before, Like I'm streaming him everywhere. He was
Speaker 2: like a two star pitcher. I need a pitching I
Speaker 2: need a volume. I'm just streaming him and so far
Speaker 2: it's going great. But I know this is not a
Speaker 2: long term fix. And he's a fun one. If you
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about ERA and expected numbers ERA one
Speaker 2: point one four, Sierra four point sixty five x CIRA
Speaker 2: four point four two, x FIT four point three one,
Speaker 2: and then FIP three point three six a little bit lower.
Speaker 2: The big thing for him is keeping the ball in
Speaker 2: the ballpark. His home run to fly ball rate is
Speaker 2: just four percent, which also but he's like a he
Speaker 2: keeps the ball on the ground like almost he's all.
Speaker 2: He's like a forty five percent plus groundball rate guy,
Speaker 2: which is good. And if you're going to pitch in
Speaker 2: that ten time a ballpark in Tampa, you're gonna need
Speaker 2: to keep the ball on the ground. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't love the matchup being in Tampa, but the Rays
Speaker 2: offense is not the most terrifying right now, not a
Speaker 2: ton of power to really scare you, all right. So
Speaker 2: Jose Katana someone that I have been streaming for a while.
Speaker 2: I haven't been a bunch of leagues kind of out
Speaker 2: of necessity, and so far, so good, and we like
Speaker 2: him for this week. We like him for the matchup
Speaker 2: that he gets the Tampa offense, which is not scary,
Speaker 2: but he's in Tampa, which is scary. But he keeps
Speaker 2: the ball on the ground, which is good. Home runs bad,
Speaker 2: ball on the ground good. So Jose Katana probably can
Speaker 2: get a ton of strikeouts, but hopefully this is not
Speaker 2: the week that he turns back into a pumpkin. So
Speaker 2: we originally had Tomoyuki Sagano on Saturday, but we had
Speaker 2: to remove him because he got moved to Thursday. So
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on the spot here. Let's
Speaker 2: do it in real time. Is there anyone else that
Speaker 2: we like for Saturday? And in previous weeks we've actually
Speaker 2: avoided Friday for two weeks in a row because we're
Speaker 2: a good point a few weeks ago of you know,
Speaker 2: we like to stream, we can stream it. You know,
Speaker 2: we're going to look at streaming options for every day.
Speaker 2: But sometimes the best option is just to stream nobody.
Speaker 2: Sometimes streaming no one is better than streaming a bad picture.
Speaker 2: But that being said, on short notice, is there anyone
Speaker 2: on Saturday that sticks out now that we had to
Speaker 2: move to Ghana?
Speaker 3: How afraid of Edward Cabrera are we? Because he pitches
Speaker 3: against the White Sox.
Speaker 2: White Sox. That's always uh, that's always you know, a
Speaker 2: decent approach. If you just stream against the White Sox.
Speaker 2: There are worse strategies.
Speaker 3: Assuming Rangers war is back. It says he's listed to
Speaker 3: go up against Cleveland, But I don't know if we
Speaker 3: want to play that card yet, So yeah, on the spot,
Speaker 3: I mean, unless you need it, I don't carera against
Speaker 3: the White Sox is the only one that I would consider,
Speaker 3: and even then I think I would probably pass on it.
Speaker 2: I would mention this so well Monday, you mentioned Shane Smith.
Speaker 2: If you're in a weekly league and you have to
Speaker 2: lock Shane Smith in two star pitcher and a second
Speaker 2: starting against the Marlins. I don't hate that. I don't
Speaker 2: hate that at all. I always like streaming two start
Speaker 2: star pictures because then you're streaming for volume, so I
Speaker 2: don't hate that. And then also, uh, I think this
Speaker 2: is gonna change. I think we had Ben Casparius as
Speaker 2: a two star picture, but I think that has changed. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's unlikely to be a two star picture now. But
Speaker 2: like we said before, originally it was against it was
Speaker 2: at Miami, and then against the Diamondbacks. I'm okay missing
Speaker 2: that Diamondbacks start, so no problems there. And then what
Speaker 2: about for Sunday.
Speaker 3: I went with Lucas Giolito again, going back against Kansas
Speaker 3: City on the road. We talked in a previous segment
Speaker 3: that I'm not a I'm not a big Delaitle fan,
Speaker 3: but I do think that that matchup is al right,
Speaker 3: so I would do that. I kind of like land
Speaker 3: and Rope Rope against the Twins, but either one those
Speaker 3: are those will be my two streamers that I see
Speaker 3: on the page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Lucas Giolido, like like we talked about in
Speaker 2: our first segment of the week, our first video of
Speaker 2: the week, he looked good in that first you know,
Speaker 2: especially for the first start back if you're missing him
Speaker 2: basically two years. He was locating well until the very end.
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, he was one strike away
Speaker 2: from six shot out innings and like having a phenomenal
Speaker 2: first start, and then like ended up walking. I think
Speaker 2: George Springer he had Donn varshow O two and then
Speaker 2: he just like he tried to bury a change up
Speaker 2: and he just left it right over the middle of
Speaker 2: the play to run home run. And then Alejandro Kirk
Speaker 2: also hit home run, and he ended up you know,
Speaker 2: he still escaped with the quality start, but he was
Speaker 2: like one strike away from a really good start, and
Speaker 2: I think there was even a point there where he
Speaker 2: got squeezed on a potential strike three that like really
Speaker 2: could have gone the other way. Yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2: I'm not like super in on Giolito, but I do
Speaker 2: think he was intriguing enough in that first start that
Speaker 2: you can't target him here against the Royals, Kyle Gibson
Speaker 2: at the Angels without Mike Drout, no Mike Trout, but
Speaker 2: it is Kyle Gibson. You have any interests of Cayle Gibson, I.
Speaker 3: Have no interest in Kyle Gibson.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Tyler Anderson on the other side, Tyler
Speaker 2: Anderson against the Orioles.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm probably more on his side, but even again,
Speaker 3: I don't really want anything to do with either one
Speaker 3: of them. If I can.
Speaker 2: Completely cromulent Tyler Anderson worm Worm likes when I make
Speaker 2: Simpsons references because he's actually never seen The Simpsons. So
Speaker 2: I like to squeeze the Simpsons reference in whenever I can.
Speaker 2: My default is just to call someone cromulant, because that's
Speaker 2: at least the reference that he knows. Now, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to find a good time to squeeze in the like
Speaker 2: the Mark McGuire reference. I don't know if you've watched
Speaker 2: The Simpsons, but have.
Speaker 3: You ever seen Mark mcgu I know, I don't think there's.
Speaker 2: A whole Baseball episode from like way back when where
Speaker 2: they're saying, they say, like Mark, major League Baseball is
Speaker 2: like spying on people, And eventually at the end they
Speaker 2: send like Mark McGuire in like on a helicopter and
Speaker 2: they're like they're asking Mark McGuire why major League Baseball
Speaker 2: is spying on them, and he's like, do you want
Speaker 2: I know the harrifying truth or do you want to
Speaker 2: see me hit a few dingers and they're like dingers
Speaker 2: and so he just like takes the evidence on the
Speaker 2: berries in his hat and he starts like hitting home runs.
Speaker 2: You know, great reference. Okay, so those are our pitching
Speaker 2: streamers for the week. And we got our Simpsons reference
Speaker 2: out of the way as well. So two really good
Speaker 2: segments to knock out there. And now we have our
Speaker 2: two star pitcher competition that Worm and I do head
Speaker 2: to head every week. I didn't update the previous week.
Speaker 2: I'm going we'll wait until Worm is back to tally it.
Speaker 2: He likes to look at the league settings, and last
Speaker 2: year we do it by like the points from like
Speaker 2: a league that Worm is in for, like the points category,
Speaker 2: like to track all the points for that I am
Speaker 2: now in that league, so I can see the points.
Speaker 2: I think there are some wacky settings, but overall, you know,
Speaker 2: it's fine. There's some like outfield assists points that I
Speaker 2: don't care for, but that doesn't really a point, you know,
Speaker 2: impact the pitching thing. But you know, I won't complain
Speaker 2: about it. But for this week, you'll be filling in
Speaker 2: and we'll wait till Worm's back to tally the results.
Speaker 2: But who are you going with for your two Stars
Speaker 2: picture of the week? And I will say it was
Speaker 2: almost someone that Worm had as a backup a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, because I looked at Country Brown that
Speaker 2: might not make two starts, but he didn't, so Brce Miller,
Speaker 2: who I almost said the name. I did say the name.
Speaker 2: So tell me why you are targeting pitching on one
Speaker 2: of those ballparks that is very pro offense right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just looked over. I kind of went with
Speaker 3: two things. One, I was trying to figure out who
Speaker 3: wouldn't mind me taking off the board for him? But
Speaker 3: then too, yeah, he's he's at He's at the Athletics,
Speaker 3: which is a not a great ballpark to go in,
Speaker 3: but I liked it paired with facing Toronto at home,
Speaker 3: which was super green on our two Star Pitchers tool,
Speaker 3: So that was that was the option. I looked at
Speaker 3: yours and and almost picked it, but I just went
Speaker 3: the other way. So that's really all I've got on it.
Speaker 3: I just didn't know who. I didn't know who Worm
Speaker 3: would mind me stealing, and considering that I don't want
Speaker 3: him blaming me for anything.
Speaker 2: Well, if you if you if you don't want Worm
Speaker 2: to mind, we can change your pick.
Speaker 3: To I mean, Sandial Contra is facing the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Accordion to Carmen Maladazinski, he wouldn't mind if you took him.
Speaker 2: He's a stitcher for the Pirates, going at the Cardinals
Speaker 2: and versus the Braves. You know, I don't think Worm
Speaker 2: will mind him not being on the board.
Speaker 3: You know what, I'll take Shane Smith. Are you Kansas
Speaker 3: City and Miami? I'm changing. I'm gonna go Shane Smith.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to rewrite. Okay, cool, all right?
Speaker 2: You want to spoil mine since I said your back soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say I looked at Zach Wheeler,
Speaker 3: but I thought that he might be angry if I
Speaker 3: took him off, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am going Zach Wheeler again. He's at Tampa Bay,
Speaker 2: so not an ideal ballpark to target for a streaming pitcher.
Speaker 2: And then at Cleveland, better team, worse offensive ballpark, but
Speaker 2: still one of the best pictures in baseball. And uh
Speaker 2: in pre these weeks, it's been kind of like really
Speaker 2: light on two star pictures. This week is really good
Speaker 2: for two star pictures at least in terms of like
Speaker 2: top names like Orton Burns, that Allen Chrissale, Exhane Smith,
Speaker 2: your boy, Cole Reagan's as protected. Sandiale Contra gets the
Speaker 2: Dodgers again. Oh man, poor guy, he's going right back there,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, Oh boy, Michael King, Bryce Miller, Yeah, just
Speaker 2: some decent names. In previous weeks, we were really scraping
Speaker 2: the barrel. Yeah. The current standings are tied one to one,
Speaker 2: and just you know, your pick will count for Worm's record,
Speaker 2: just like it will you know when he disappears in
Speaker 2: two weeks to go do football. But yeah, and uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you were you here. I don't
Speaker 2: think you were here when I tallied last year's two
Speaker 2: start picture competition. You know, we tied. Worm refuses to
Speaker 2: believe that we tied, even though he didn't you know,
Speaker 2: check any of the results himself. But I double and
Speaker 2: triple checked it and I tied, And he he accused
Speaker 2: me of just like giving myself a win the final week,
Speaker 2: and I was like, no, I actually lost the final week.
Speaker 2: It turns out I was like up, you know, I
Speaker 2: match up, and then we tied. So yeah, this this
Speaker 2: this year, whoever wins, we'll have to determine what a
Speaker 2: fair punishment is. We should just punish Worm regardless for
Speaker 2: leaving us early. Whereas you know, you and I close
Speaker 2: out the season and are here every every week for sure,
Speaker 2: and now we're not closing out the season. But let's
Speaker 2: close out the episode with weekend excitement. Worm always likes
Speaker 2: to finish on a warm and fuzzy note to think
Speaker 2: for what we like to what we're looking forward to
Speaker 2: this weekend. So I'll let you go first as our
Speaker 2: guests for the week. What's your weekend excitement? What are
Speaker 2: you looking forward to this weekend?
Speaker 3: My Cubs are playing the Brewers. I call it Wrigley
Speaker 3: North mostly so if fits ever watches this, he can
Speaker 3: get just a little irritated. But my big one is
Speaker 3: the NHL Playoffs are continuing. My oilers made it onto
Speaker 3: Round two, which is going to start this weekend, and
Speaker 3: this is where I plug that. Tyler and I have
Speaker 3: a live stream on Twitch on Tuesdays and Fridays at
Speaker 3: three pm Eastern where we cover what bets we're doing,
Speaker 3: and so far we're hitting at a pretty solid rate.
Speaker 3: So if you want to tune into that, that's my
Speaker 3: other focus, So what do you got going on this weekend?
Speaker 2: Nice? Also, that live stream is a Twitch dot tv
Speaker 2: slash Fantasy Pros I believe is the ORL and we're
Speaker 2: doing a ton of stuff on Twitch now. We just
Speaker 2: started this year. We're having a lot of fun with
Speaker 2: it and it's going very well and I think it's
Speaker 2: probably here to stay. So as opposed to like YouTube
Speaker 2: and other places where we kind of have different channels
Speaker 2: for everything, we're just putting everything on like one Twitch
Speaker 2: channel for right now and just you know, seeing how
Speaker 2: it goes. We've had a really positive response to it.
Speaker 2: People really enjoy it, and we're having a lot of
Speaker 2: fun with it. And so yeah, give us a follow
Speaker 2: on Twitch, Twitch dot tv slash Fantasy Pros and join
Speaker 2: us over there because we're going to do but you're
Speaker 2: doing a lot a bunch of like stuff that's live
Speaker 2: on Twitch and then we upload it as on to
Speaker 2: YouTube as a video maybe audio in the podcast feed.
Speaker 2: But if you want to join us live for stuff,
Speaker 2: join us over there on twins. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: For me. We can excite in Kentucky Derby. I'm not
Speaker 2: the biggest horse racing fan, but you know it takes
Speaker 2: like one minute. I'll watch it. You know, it's like
Speaker 2: six thirty on Saturday. You know, I have to do
Speaker 2: enough work for it here at betting Pros that you know,
Speaker 2: I might as well watch it and see who wins.
Speaker 2: This year, there's a horse name Journalism, so really hoping
Speaker 2: that Journalism wins. I think there's also a horse named
Speaker 2: is it publisher or publishing Journals? I assume it's the
Speaker 2: same owner. If I had to guess journalism publisher, I
Speaker 2: imagine that's the same same owner. But if not, I
Speaker 2: hope they both win. I hope one comes first once
Speaker 2: comes in second, as someone who you know has a
Speaker 2: journalism background, very fun for me. And then there are
Speaker 2: some pretty good baseball series this weekend. We have Diamondbacks Phillies.
Speaker 2: I'm a Red Sox fan, but I have a you know,
Speaker 2: I always watching the Phillies as well, someone who loves
Speaker 2: all things Philly, the return of the Best Picture, and
Speaker 2: Baseball Rangers for us. I obviously have to watch that
Speaker 2: Dodgers Braves again. I forget if I mentioned in a
Speaker 2: previous video or not, but it feels like the Braves
Speaker 2: got off to such a poor start, and it feels
Speaker 2: like every time I turn around facing the Dodgers again,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, are they just play the Dodgers every weekend?
Speaker 2: These poor guys are trying to like turn things around.
Speaker 2: Ex Striders down, the Cooney Is down, and they're just like, oh,
Speaker 2: here's here's Italian the Dodgers again like just kicking us
Speaker 2: all over down. And then Dylan ce'es versus the Pirates.
Speaker 2: And I would really like Dylan Sees to be good
Speaker 2: deal in Dylan Sea's and not bad dealing Dylan Sea's
Speaker 2: because I have him in a few leagues as well,
Speaker 2: and I want that like mid threes ra and two
Speaker 2: inno strikeouts. I don't want a six era and tour
Speaker 2: on of strikeouts. And it's a pretty good matchup for him,
Speaker 2: and I would like him to be good Dylan CEA's
Speaker 2: and not bad Dylan Seas. And that's all I got
Speaker 2: anything else from you, any parting words of wisdom.
Speaker 3: Party words of wisdom, No, I really don't won't have
Speaker 3: any at this point. Just stay, stay, just be very
Speaker 3: careful with Dalton Varshall. That's pretty much what I have
Speaker 3: to offer. So otherwise, it's been fun sitting in all right.
Speaker 2: For Kelly Kirby. I'm Mike Marre. This has been the
Speaker 2: cycle and thank you for stopping by.
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