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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the cycle. I am Ryan Warmley,

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Speaker 1: joined today, not by Mike Mayor. He is off doing

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Speaker 1: I think some kind of recovery from some minor whatever thing.

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Speaker 1: He's fine, he's not here though. He always gives me

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Speaker 1: a hard time when I'm not here, so I will

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Speaker 1: return the favor in kind. I am joined as he's

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Speaker 1: Kelly Kirby.

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Speaker 2: Kelly, thanks for coming on today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me. It's nice to

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Speaker 3: do this with you instead of him. But we kind

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Speaker 3: of are the surgical triplets, aren't We like us and

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Speaker 3: our procedures are just constantly.

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Speaker 1: There's always something, Yes, you know, we're never able to

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Speaker 1: avoid whatever. I actually it's not even I'm trying to,

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Speaker 1: you know, protect his private you know business. I don't

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Speaker 1: actually even know what he's got going on. I just

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Speaker 1: know he's out for some some minor things. So he'll

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Speaker 1: be back next week. I will actually be gone next

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Speaker 1: week for a family trip, so you will be filling

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Speaker 1: in again. Back on the other side, you will unfortunately

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Speaker 1: be stuck with Mayor again next week. But this week

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Speaker 1: we get the rare Worm and Kelly show. Really really,

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Speaker 1: we could call it the zoo. It's it's worm and

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Speaker 1: penguin together. So we got we've got some animals going

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Speaker 2: We're by the way, Oh yeah, I mean, who would

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Speaker 2: go to see a worm?

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Speaker 1: I guess like they have like little worm farms at

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Speaker 1: some of like the little bug exhibits, Like I think,

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Speaker 1: like my nephew might enjoy that, you know, kids like bugs,

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Speaker 1: but as a general zoo, you know, exhibit that, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that would be that impressive. But yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking kind of, you know, doing what we

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Speaker 1: usually do here. We're gonna be rounding the bases with

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Speaker 1: some trending topics. We've got a fun little thing kind

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Speaker 1: of at the end of round of the bases. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping it will be kind of the bulk of

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Speaker 1: the segment where Kelly will be going through some of

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Speaker 1: her lessons learned so far. Two months into the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five Fantasy baseball season, Kelly obviously knows a lot

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Speaker 1: more about fantasy baseball than I do, and I would

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Speaker 1: say that more than Mayor does too, although that is

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Speaker 1: not necessarily reflected in the standings in Dan Harris's league,

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Speaker 1: which you are also in and I like to bring

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Speaker 1: up because Mayor is in last place. There you, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: we'll be doing those lessons learned from Kelly. We'll be

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Speaker 1: also talking, like I said, some trending topics, some news notes,

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Speaker 1: and injuries, all that good stuff. And as always, this

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Speaker 1: is part one of three parts of the cycle for

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Speaker 1: the week, so it'd be sure to check out not

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Speaker 1: only this episode if you're watching, this will be the

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Speaker 1: first one to drop both on audio and video, but

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Speaker 1: also the other couple of segments as well.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the weekend. All right, Kelly, let's dive in.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to kind of just start with this is

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Speaker 1: from a couple of days ago, obviously, but Ronald Acunya

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Speaker 1: You know, we weren't going to do a segment on Sodo,

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Speaker 1: like mon Soda is a by low, and I think

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Speaker 1: So I think Sodo is a good one to bring

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Speaker 2: Yeah, give it a try.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with a Kunya, what would you say he had

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Speaker 3: is Baltimore gonna get better, but yeah, fantasy teams everyone

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Speaker 3: because I assume almost everyone held onto the two of them,

437
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Speaker 3: So yeah, they might be worth a by low before

438
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Speaker 3: they get back. If you are looking for something, you know, again,

439
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Speaker 3: a little bit of power and especially from a name

440
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Speaker 3: fielder spot, so I might go after him.

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Speaker 1: I think Kowser especially talking about the power. I mean

442
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Speaker 1: last year he in five hundred at bats, twenty four

443
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Speaker 1: arm runs, also nine stolen bases. I think there's a

444
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 1: room for the batting average to get better too. It

445
00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:33,399
Speaker 1: was two forty two last year. Like he had that

446
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Speaker 1: reputation in college, which was a while ago at this one,

447
00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,040
Speaker 1: but are that reputation of being a better contact heater

448
00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 1: than that? I think he is kind of the thumb

449
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the lineup that the Orioles are missing,

450
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Speaker 1: especially with Gunner like playing poorly and added playing poorly too.

451
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Speaker 1: I just think like Kowser sliding into that four or

452
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Speaker 1: five spot, I think that will help more than people

453
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Speaker 1: are giving credence to. And Westburg is just like a

454
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Speaker 1: very good all around player, Like I am very excited

455
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Speaker 1: to have him back in the lineup as well as

456
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Speaker 1: a fan, But I think I agree that like like Wes,

457
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Speaker 1: Westbroog is the one that stands out to me as

458
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Speaker 1: like I'm more excited about that return than Kowser, like,

459
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Speaker 1: and part of that is just the positional stuff, but

460
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Speaker 1: part of it is, like I think he's a better

461
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Speaker 1: overall player. But I think Kowser's upside rest of season,

462
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Speaker 1: if he just if he is back and fully healthy,

463
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Speaker 1: is like actually pretty significant, and most people hung on

464
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Speaker 1: to him but I would maybe be looking to trade

465
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Speaker 1: for him if you could get him as like a

466
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Speaker 1: you know, a part of a larger deal. If you

467
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Speaker 1: can include him, I think there's real power upside for

468
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Speaker 1: rest of season. Like it would not surprise me he's

469
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Speaker 1: not going to reach thirty homers this year, but it

470
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Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if he kind of spends the next

471
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Speaker 1: four months at a thirty homer pace coming back. That

472
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Speaker 1: just the type of hittor he is. And then, and

473
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Speaker 1: like you said, we both love Westbroog for sure. For me,

474
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Speaker 1: it was the two guys this year that I got

475
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Speaker 1: like pretty much everywhere because of some of the positional versatility.

476
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Speaker 1: You know, one of them obviously more proven than the other,

477
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Speaker 1: but I just really like both players a lot. It

478
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Speaker 1: was Jordan Westburg and Matt Shaw, and then one of

479
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Speaker 1: them gets hurt and the other one he gets sent

480
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Speaker 1: down to the minors. So it was not the most

481
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Speaker 1: fun in April for investing heavily in those two guys.

482
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm excited.

483
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Speaker 1: I think Calser and Westburg are going to make a

484
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Speaker 1: difference for fantasy rosters coming back. Do you have any

485
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Speaker 1: thoughts on Baschet just because I didn't pick him in

486
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Speaker 1: the later segment, so we're not gonna be really talking

487
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Speaker 1: about him there. But like I said, he hits the

488
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Speaker 1: home run, has this lower back tightness. He's somebody that again,

489
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Speaker 1: I really was drafting a lot of this year because

490
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Speaker 1: I thought it was just a really good price on

491
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Speaker 1: him where he was going. You know, he's age twenty

492
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Speaker 1: seven season now, Like he's been good in the past,

493
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Speaker 1: even if he was coming off that disastrous and injury

494
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Speaker 1: short into your last year. You know, kind of looking

495
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Speaker 1: at just what he's done this year, like it's not

496
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Speaker 1: like he's been sending the world on fire, but clearly

497
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Speaker 1: better than last year at the very least.

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Speaker 2: You know, what do you kind of make of him

499
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Speaker 2: rest the season?

500
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had high hopes for him as well, and

501
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Speaker 3: I like that his batting average has bounced back to

502
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Speaker 3: I mean he's batting to seventy seven. So last year

503
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Speaker 3: that was actually the killer for me that you kind

504
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Speaker 3: of drafted him with the idea that he was going

505
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Speaker 3: to hit for average and give you a little bit

506
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Speaker 3: of power, but you know, kind of hold down some

507
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Speaker 3: of your counting stats and and this year he seems

508
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 3: to have bounced back a little bit harder with that

509
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Speaker 3: the bang average and he scored twenty three runs and

510
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Speaker 3: and the five homers is you know, obviously we'd like

511
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Speaker 3: it to be more. But he's also tried six stolen

512
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Speaker 3: bases and made it four of them, so he's he's

513
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Speaker 3: been doing a little bit more of the all around stuff.

514
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Speaker 3: So I was I was in on him mostly because

515
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Speaker 3: I was I was so in on Vladdie, hoping we'd

516
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Speaker 3: go the whole year without him getting a contract, and

517
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Speaker 3: instead he got that, and then I was like, can

518
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Speaker 3: I undraft him everywhere? But but the two of them together,

519
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Speaker 3: like I feel like if he can just stay healthy,

520
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Speaker 3: and that's just been the big problem. And low back

521
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Speaker 3: tightness is always that's one of those weird like I

522
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Speaker 3: don't know, that's just one of the weird ones where

523
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Speaker 3: you have no idea how long they're going to.

524
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Speaker 2: Be out for everybody ever ever to have a bad back.

525
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Speaker 3: Ever like no, like somebody says oblique, it's like, oh

526
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Speaker 3: that's going forever, but like a low back, it's like,

527
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Speaker 3: I don't know where we at.

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Speaker 1: So all right, let's get into what I'm most looking

529
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Speaker 1: forward to on this episode is Kelly Kirby's lessons learned

530
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Speaker 1: so far in twenty twenty five. Now, I don't you

531
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Speaker 1: have not shared these with me, so I get to

532
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Speaker 1: kind of react to them live you. I don't even

533
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Speaker 1: know how many you came up with. So this could

534
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Speaker 1: be short, this could be long.

535
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Speaker 2: We can take this as long as you want.

536
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Speaker 1: I want you to dive into all your lessons learned

537
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Speaker 1: so far this season two months in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so just brace yourself. I'm gonna go on for

539
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Speaker 3: abun hour. But I'm I'm okay. So one of the

540
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Speaker 3: things that I I got invited to participate in tell

541
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Speaker 3: Wars this year, which it was kind of like imagine

542
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Speaker 3: being invited to a party with like people everyone that

543
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Speaker 3: you've ever wanted to like meet, except they're inviting you

544
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Speaker 3: to compete against them, and and it's it was like

545
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Speaker 3: the most intimidating thing that I've been a part of.

546
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Speaker 3: I don't play a lot of fifteen team rotal leagues.

547
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Speaker 3: I don't play a lot of fifteen team rotal leagues

548
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Speaker 3: with you know, fantasy Baseball geniuses. And the whole time

549
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Speaker 3: I was just like, I feel like I'm a little

550
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Speaker 3: bit out of my element here, and then I went

551
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Speaker 3: and proved it. So and a fifteen team rotal league.

552
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Speaker 3: One of the things I learned is it is actually

553
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Speaker 3: important to draft saves, so there's even though there's turnover

554
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Speaker 3: on the wire, like you gotta lock down probably at

555
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Speaker 3: least one that you know is going to get him,

556
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Speaker 3: barring injury, of course. And instead, what I did was

557
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Speaker 3: I drafted a whole lot of handcuffs, and those have

558
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 3: gone very poorly, Like Griffin Jack's right off the top

559
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Speaker 3: of my head, not because I thought Duran was going

560
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Speaker 3: to get injured, but he just usually has such solid numbers,

561
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Speaker 3: and I was trying very hard to protect my ratios

562
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Speaker 3: in those leagues. But yeah, that didn't work out so

563
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Speaker 3: well because I also really liked Sandy olo Contra and

564
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Speaker 3: so those ratios are are shot. But we'll talk about

565
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Speaker 3: him in just a second. So yeah, that's one of

566
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Speaker 3: the biggest things that I took away from it, where

567
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Speaker 3: it's just like I kept passing on relievers, and even

568
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Speaker 3: in our league with with Dan, I kept passing on relievers,

569
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Speaker 3: and so I'm stuck with Hoffman, who's you know, locking

570
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Speaker 3: down saves, but he has a six something ere and

571
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Speaker 3: he's just been, you know, a mess. So that's I

572
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Speaker 3: hate drafting saves, but it's important in road leagues. The

573
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Speaker 3: second thing I learned, Okay, you.

574
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Speaker 1: Feel that way quickly, I want to ask, do you

575
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Speaker 1: feel that way like it's pronounced in a league like

576
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Speaker 1: towt Wars, But do you feel that way kind of

577
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Speaker 1: going into next season in terms of like a twelve

578
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Speaker 1: team league or like in rodo, like you just want

579
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Speaker 1: to lock somebody down because for me, like it's it's

580
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Speaker 1: something that I want to be good at, but it's

581
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Speaker 1: often hard to predict year to year we're gonna be

582
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Speaker 1: good outside of the truly elites yet, but even with

583
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Speaker 1: the truly elites, like I have Devin Williams everywhere this year,

584
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Speaker 1: I thought I was locking in at the top. I

585
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Speaker 1: thought I was locking in the number one gy honestly, Like,

586
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Speaker 1: I could not have been more high on Devin Williams

587
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Speaker 1: this season, and clearly that could not have It could

588
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Speaker 1: not possibly have gone worse. So would you apply that

589
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Speaker 1: same lesson to a more normally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not as important, but again and in head

591
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Speaker 3: to head, I will punt saves till the end of time,

592
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Speaker 3: Like I don't care in the least about that, But

593
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Speaker 3: like in ROTO, it's like, yeah, I still want at

594
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Speaker 3: least someone that I know is going to start the

595
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Speaker 3: year as the closer and presumably has that role kind

596
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Speaker 3: of locked down. So even when a Devin Williams happens,

597
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Speaker 3: like you know, it's like it we started there. Like

598
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Speaker 3: on paper, statistically speaking, he should have been good, he

599
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 3: should have been solid. He but I never I didn't

600
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Speaker 3: draft him because I don't like guys who have who

601
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 3: broke their backs. But uh, that scares me, just dismitch.

602
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean like Duran out of the out

603
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Speaker 3: of Minnesota, like I have him a couple of places,

604
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Speaker 3: but not in Roe because it's like, well he's gonna

605
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Speaker 3: lock it down, but and he has the job basically

606
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Speaker 3: until someone takes it or unless he gets injured. That's

607
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Speaker 3: the type that I want to lock in on roto.

608
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Speaker 3: And so next year I would definitely aim to draft

609
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Speaker 3: one or two. But for sure, one the key is

610
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 3: to not feel like you're overpaying, and in auction leagues,

611
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm overpaid for closers. So that's my.

612
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Speaker 1: I ended up our work kind of insiders league that

613
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Speaker 1: we're in with Fantasy Pros. It's a really kind of

614
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 1: an odd league because of the nature of our company.

615
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Speaker 1: We actually have it set to end in mid August,

616
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Speaker 1: so we don't go the full season in this league.

617
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Speaker 1: And that's something that you and myself and Mayor are

618
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: all kind of pushing back against.

619
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Speaker 2: But it's the way the league is set up, and

620
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Speaker 2: we're not the commissioner, so we don't have control over it.

621
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Speaker 1: And in that league, it's head to head categories, and

622
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Speaker 1: I decided to see that. I did want to go

623
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Speaker 1: heavy on reliever because it's a daily league too, so

624
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Speaker 1: I figure it, Listen, if I can get three or

625
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: four relievers I really like, and then I just rotate

626
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: in starters every day, I'm going to be winning a

627
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,280
Speaker 1: lot of these pitching categories every week, and then as

628
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: long as my hitting is just okay, I'll be winning

629
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Speaker 1: most weeks. And I had Devin Williams was my big purchase,

630
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Speaker 1: so you know, I definitely overpaid for him. You know,

631
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: I was able to pick up like Kyle fin Again.

632
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,400
Speaker 1: It's also a really shallow league. It's a ten team

633
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: because we have multiple like versions of the league and

634
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: very short benches, so it's a very There are players

635
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,200
Speaker 1: on the waivers in that league that people would be

636
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: shocked at, but it's just the way the league kind

637
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: of is, so it's it's kind of a unique system.

638
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Speaker 1: But that was one where I went most heavily on relievers,

639
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Speaker 1: you know, pretty much that I did in any other

640
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Speaker 1: league this year, and again because I picked Devin Williams

641
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: as one of the guys that has burned me.

642
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the three of us

643
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 3: have a chat that we like labeled we hate the

644
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,679
Speaker 3: Insiders Baseball set up, like because I feel like we

645
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 3: talk about it a lot, and it will pick up

646
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Speaker 3: now that we're getting into like what some people consider

647
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Speaker 3: playoff season at our company, like we're.

648
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Speaker 1: Basically in the equivalent of like August for most other teams.

649
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the playoffs will start in our league. The

650
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: first day of the playoffs in this league is June thirtieth.

651
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 2: I mean, it's insane.

652
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 3: It's like you can't even talk about it really because

653
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 3: it's just nothing applies to anything else.

654
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: I always laugh too, because the logic from the people

655
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: who run the league, which listen, being a commissioner's a

656
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: thankless job. I get it, but like I always laugh

657
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: because they're like, well, you know, people get really busy

658
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: in August it's like our busiest month of the year

659
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: by a mile at the company, which I understand. But

660
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: also I'm like, okay, so like six people might still

661
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: be alive even if we like didn't go all the

662
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: way till September, but say we finished a couple weeks early, Like,

663
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: not even not all thirty people in this league are

664
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: going to be alive anymore.

665
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: It's going to be like a half dozen.

666
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: I think they can handle picking some daily lineups here

667
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: and not you know, have it impact with too much.

668
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: But I digress. What's your next lesson learns?

669
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm a guest on the show. That's not

670
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 3: get me fired. But so then other thing I learned

671
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 3: was I went into a couple drafts where I was like,

672
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 3: I really want batting average because I feel like batting

673
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: average can co you know, it can transfer to good

674
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 3: counting stats, it can transfer to other things. And in

675
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 3: the league that I did it the most, specifically, my

676
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 3: team is now collectively hitting two forty nine, but they

677
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 3: batted two oh two during April, and I was like, well,

678
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 3: that didn't work. So I think I'm going to go

679
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 3: back to not necessarily ignoring batting average. But like, like

680
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 3: you know, it'll it should correct over the year, but

681
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 3: that it was killer. It was just awful. And I

682
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 3: have Soto in that league, so the whole time I

683
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 3: was just like, help me.

684
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: But well, it's one of those things.

685
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: It's kind of like pitching in general, or I always

686
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: equate pitching to running backs and fantasy football. It's like

687
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: those in the sense that batting average is something that

688
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,120
Speaker 1: I really want to be good at, but I find

689
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: it very difficult to be good at a lot of

690
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: the time. So I actually in the league I'm in

691
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: where I'm doing best this year, I'm like, it's I'm

692
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: running away with this. I mean it's early, but I'm

693
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: dominating in this roto league. And it's a like you

694
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: keep five and I had just five great keepers, which

695
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: went a long way. But in that league, I'm like

696
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 1: twenty points higher than anybody else in batting average, and

697
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: I think that's a real key to the reason why

698
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: I'm running away with everything. To your point, like it

699
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,160
Speaker 1: can be a signal of how you're doing in some

700
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: of the other categories as well, But it's a difficult

701
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: one to get right.

702
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 3: Yep, for sure, And so I mean it might be

703
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: worth trying but I didn't do well on that whatsoever.

704
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 3: So so yeah, my third lesson is do not trust

705
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 3: Mike Trout and by extension, do not trust Mike Mayor.

706
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 3: He was so in on Trout every every draft we

707
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 3: talked about, every draft I was in with him, it

708
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 3: was you know, nope, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna

709
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 3: do it. And it's amazing that he basically just replicated

710
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: last year where his April was. I mean, his April

711
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: wasn't great in terms of like his average was terrible,

712
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 3: but he produced right and then the same thing last year.

713
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: He had like what ten home runs in April or something,

714
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 3: and then he's gone. And it's always that just vague,

715
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 3: like he is the ultimate you do not know what

716
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 3: they're talking about. With his injury, like they could literally

717
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: be like he stubbed his toe, he's out for two months,

718
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 3: and then sometimes it's like he broke his wrist, but

719
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 3: he'll back and be back in two weeks. Like they

720
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: it's like they just don't, you don't know how to

721
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: do it. So I also just wanted to work in

722
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 3: a chance to tell everyone not to trust me, like Mayor.

723
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 2: Well, that's been a big Mayor thing.

724
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: Too in reacting to this injury is like they're like, well,

725
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, and yet there's

726
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: no timeline for his Like we're not concerned, but there's

727
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: no timeline. He's like, what does this even mean? Like

728
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: those those two things do not square with one another.

729
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: He's currently one hundred and twenty fourth in our rest

730
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: of season consensus rankings, which by the way, is definitely

731
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: too high. I know he faced live pitching yesterday and

732
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: ran the bases a bit, but like even when he

733
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: comes back, like, what are you gonna do? Be you know,

734
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: confident in him staying on the field.

735
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: Of course not.

736
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: So there's a reason I have him nowhere, and that's

737
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: a that's an l for for mayor for sure this year.

738
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 3: And so then I you know, because I like to

739
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 3: make fun, but I'll also just you know, come back

740
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 3: with my more of my l's. Apparently I do want

741
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 3: to take a preseason lamp. My love of Hunter Brown.

742
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 3: My I don't think I ever stopped talking about him.

743
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 3: I think every article where it was like who are

744
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 3: you going after? Who are your must haves? Would picture

745
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 3: like I was like a Hunter Brown, Hunter Roun Hunter Brown.

746
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 3: So he's doing exactly what I thought he was gonna do.

747
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 3: I you know, he had a little bit of a

748
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 3: blow upstart I think the other day, but but he

749
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 3: doesn't concern me. I adore him. So I want everyone

750
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 3: to remember that, and then I want everyone to forget

751
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 3: everything I said about Sandy al Contra, just entirely all

752
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 3: across the board. I cannot believe how bad he looks,

753
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 3: and like, just none of his pitches are doing anything.

754
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 3: No one's no, there's no swinging, there's no like he's

755
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 3: just he's not. He's not fooling anybody with what is happening.

756
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 3: Then I don't know how he improves it. So he's

757
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: a drop for me literally everywhere that I can except

758
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 3: for that fifteen team Tellwars league where there's really nothing.

759
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 3: So I'm just like, I guess I'll just keep running

760
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 3: him out there. But yeah, so those are my those

761
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 3: are my two. That's my win and my loss. I

762
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 3: think from the pitching side.

763
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: We did we did an episode a couple of weeks

764
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: ago with Mayor and myself did like kind of takeing

765
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: the l's on some guys early on, and for.

766
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 2: Me, like Devin Williams was a big one. I did.

767
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: I had a bold prediction before the year, and if

768
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be bold, right, it wasn't supposed to

769
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: be an obvious thing. Like you know, there's risk that

770
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 1: bold predictions don't play out, that's the nature of them.

771
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: But one of my bold predictions was that he Devin Williams,

772
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: would earn multiple cy Young votes this year down ballot,

773
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 1: but he would be you know, get votes that will.

774
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 2: Not be happening, certainly.

775
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: And then the other l I took was Adley Rushman,

776
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: where I just kind of like you where it's like

777
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: like you were just describing with al Contra, Like I

778
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: just can't believe how bad he looks like it like

779
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: doesn't And I know some of the expected stats for

780
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: Adli are better than the counting stats, but like, I

781
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 1: mean even just yesterday, and I know he was coming

782
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: back from getting hit in the face of the ball.

783
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: Like I don't say this callously or like to make

784
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: a joker, like he looked concussed.

785
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 2: Like he looked like like if.

786
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: A concussed player was trying to swing against major league pitching.

787
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: I mean, he's his first three at bats, he had

788
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: like nine swings and make contact once and it was

789
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: a pop up like it was just strikeout.

790
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 2: It just looked really bad.

791
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: So those those were my l so I can relate

792
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: to kind of hoping people forget about those eventually.

793
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 3: Exactly, like have short memories everyone. We talked about this

794
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: just briefly. But one another thing I learned, or at

795
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 3: least had reinforces, like you always want a rookie in

796
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 3: their second stint in the Majors. Matt Shaw has come

797
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: back up, and I think I'll talk about him in

798
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 3: the next segment. But the first one sometimes gets ugly.

799
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 3: The second one, you know, he tends to go way

800
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: better because, like you said, they go down, they prove

801
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 3: there's nothing else to do, and then they come back up.

802
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,680
Speaker 3: But since they'd already seen it, it's like there's a

803
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 3: I think there's a level of relaxation, level of adjustment

804
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 3: that they are much more comfortable with. And you know,

805
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 3: I mean there's a learning curve, right, There's a learning

806
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 3: curve when you join any new company, and I think

807
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: we just have to take that in consideration with uh,

808
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 3: with rookies for sure. So that's that's that lesson. The

809
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 3: next one is really kind of sort of a last weekend,

810
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 3: I went to a winery in Wisconsin because I'm right

811
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 3: on the border. And I walked in and it was

812
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 3: a kind of a birthday gathering for someone. So there

813
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 3: are people that I didn't know. And one of the

814
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 3: people was wearing a Tiger's jersey in Wisconsin at a winery,

815
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 3: and I was like, what in the hell is that?

816
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 3: And all I could see was the last number was five,

817
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 3: and so I'm like, okay, maybe a baseball fan. So

818
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 3: I'm like cool, I'm like, are you wearing a Verlander jersey?

819
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,280
Speaker 3: And she was like no, She's like it's a Brandon

820
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 3: in jersey. And I'm like, you are kidding. I'm like okay,

821
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 3: And so like that was my It's important to be

822
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 3: open to all fandoms, and people get there there they

823
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 3: fall in love with certain players for certain reasons. This

824
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 3: is also my opportunity to tell everyone that Justin Ferlander

825
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 3: is washed and you don't have to try to keep

826
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 3: him on your teams. That's that's how I brought that

827
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 3: back around.

828
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, Kelly, Yeah, what is your

829
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: most obscure jersey and or shersey that you own?

830
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,399
Speaker 3: You want to go with ever owned, because that's way

831
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 3: easier like, sure, okay, Yeah, Like I was, I owned

832
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 3: a Nick Punto jersey because for the Twins, I loved him.

833
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,560
Speaker 3: I don't know why, nice, I mean, I have no idea.

834
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 3: I just thought he was, like he was just my

835
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 3: favorite player for a little while. So I owned a

836
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 3: Punto shirt. Yeah, And I was like, and I got

837
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 3: the same look that I probably gave this person with

838
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 3: the Industrants.

839
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got a Ramon Hernandez Orioles suersey.

840
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 2: Uh, from a number of years ago.

841
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: I certainly I can't fit in it anymore, but I

842
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: still own it, I think.

843
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: And then I have for jersey.

844
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,279
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, my college roommate just thought it would

845
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: be funny to own an Oakland Athletics Jack Cust jersey,

846
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: and so we had that hanging in our college dorm.

847
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: And then when we moved out, he was like, I

848
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: don't really want this anywhere?

849
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: Do you want it?

850
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: I was like sure, So I just have this Cust

851
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,919
Speaker 1: jersey in my house.

852
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 3: I remember another one with Cubs. I was watching the

853
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 3: Cubs game with my wife and and we were like,

854
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 3: if Jeremy Burnitz gets a hit here, I will buy

855
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 3: his jersey. And he like walked off Homer and and

856
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 3: she looks at me and she's like, we'll order it.

857
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 2: Like you have to, you can't back out.

858
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 3: And then the te fell off. So then she had

859
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 3: her Bernie Zu, which we laughed at forever. So then

860
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 3: and the next two speaking of the Cubs, always remember

861
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: whoever the Cub's closer is, they are only currently that closer.

862
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: Go pick them up and then they will start blowing saves.

863
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 3: And then the Cup the Cubs have a d D

864
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 3: when it comes to trying to figure out a bullpen.

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00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: If Valencia is it, I would love that, But in

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Speaker 3: my entire Cubs fandom, I can remember the amount of

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Speaker 3: times we had a closer that I was like, that's

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Speaker 3: our closer, So just be aware of that for fantasy.

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Speaker 3: And then the last one is I would like to

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Speaker 3: publicly apologize to Pete crow Armstrong. I literally in two

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Speaker 3: different leagues. I was like, I can't believe that I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna get stuck with him. Like I was just like, fine,

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Speaker 3: I'll just take Pete kor Armstrong in the league I'm

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Speaker 3: in with my dad. He drafted him. I made fun

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Speaker 3: of him because I was like, I'm like, you can't

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Speaker 3: draft him there like, I'm like, that is like fourteen

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Speaker 3: rounds too early, you know, blah blah blah. And I've

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Speaker 3: gotten to talk to my dad a lot more this

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00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: season because I feel like he wants to call me,

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Speaker 3: like every time he does anything good. And he's got

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00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 3: fifteen homers and fifteen steels, so it's a fair amount.

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Speaker 3: But so that's those are the lessons I've learned so far.

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Speaker 1: I told there this recently because I had I had

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Speaker 1: pee Kor Armstrong as a cell high. Not that I

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00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: think he's going to be terrible, but just like, you know,

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00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: get a stud if you can. And in one of

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Speaker 1: my leagues, it's a two catcher roto league, and there's

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00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: there's some keeper elements at play, and cal Raley is

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00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: a very very good keeper value.

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Speaker 2: Even aside from the fact that he's.

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Speaker 1: A great catcher to have in a two catcher league,

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00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: he's also a good keeper value. And he got traded

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Speaker 1: for PCA earlier this year, and the trade almost got

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Speaker 1: vetoed because everybody was like, this is insane to give

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Speaker 1: up cal Raleigh for only this, And now it almost

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00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: looks like they're I mean, they're both even good to

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00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: vary degrees but like it almost looks other reverse, like

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Speaker 1: holy cow, you got p K. Armstrong for just a catcher,

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Speaker 1: Like I mean it, it's funny how quickly that can be,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of painted in a different way, in

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Speaker 1: a different.

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Speaker 2: Light just a month later.

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Speaker 3: Really yeah, I mean, and that's another it's a good

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Speaker 3: story to kind of remember why you don't veto trades

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Speaker 3: unless they're so I mean, they have to be sol

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00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 3: lopsided and like in order. But if it's like if

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Speaker 3: I value this guy like this, like who are you

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00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 3: to tell me not to? Again with the exceptions, but

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Speaker 3: I also wanted to just say.

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is the manager that did that quickly

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Speaker 1: is really really incompetent. He's new to our league, and

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Speaker 1: like I actually can't even describe to you how bad

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Speaker 1: his draft was.

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Speaker 3: Is it mayir?

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00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: No, it was like I think he took Christian Campbell.

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Speaker 1: So there's so there's five keepers for each team, so

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Speaker 1: fifty players are off the board. But if you were

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Speaker 1: drafting the first two rounds, you can't be kept, so

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00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: there are studs available. Plus you know you can only

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00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: keep five guys, so like a good I had to

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00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: throw back like Dever's and you know, Bregman and like

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00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: guys like that, Like there were players available plus those

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00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: first two round studs, and he took rookie Sasaki with

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00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: the first overall pick, ahead of like Mookie Bets and

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: like a bunch of other people. He took Christian Campbell

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Speaker 1: in the third round again ahead of like all these

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Speaker 1: great like very good players still on the board, and

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Speaker 1: that was like the entire draft, like like I was like,

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Speaker 1: this guy seems very incompetent at this And so then

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00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: he was also making the trade and we were like, okay,

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00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: like he's clearly somebody's taking advantage because he's not what

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Speaker 1: he's doing. But this one worked out for now he

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Speaker 1: now as Speaker Armstrong as a great keeper moving forward

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Speaker 1: for sure.

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Speaker 3: And I was also just gonna say, I want in

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Speaker 3: the comments people to drop their most obscure ersey jersey

937
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 3: and the story about why you own it would be

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Speaker 3: even better. But I love that conversation.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe we can. I don't want to promise this,

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Speaker 1: but we'll ask you if we can hook up the

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Speaker 1: most obscure one we find with something like you know,

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00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: premium subscription or something like that.

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Speaker 2: No promises, do it just for fun?

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00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,840
Speaker 1: And for the conversation, but we'll ask to see if

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Speaker 1: we can get that approved as well too, So give

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Speaker 1: us your best most obscure jerseys and or cherseys. We'll

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Speaker 1: go ahead and wrap up rounding the bases there. We

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Speaker 1: will be around for Part two and Part three, where

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about some buys and cells and

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00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: waiver guys. And then of course Part three will be

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Speaker 1: the the streaming pictures and our two start picture competition

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Speaker 1: for Kelly.

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Speaker 2: I'm Ryan Warley for part one. Thanks for tuning in,

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Speaker 2: stick around for the next episode.

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