Slinging Sammy's Fantasy Football Podcast
Inside the Mind of a Fantasy Football Master: Mikey Walsh
Prepare to be entertained as we welcome Mikey Walsh, founding member of the Slinging Sammies Fantasy Football league. This guy brings the charm of a seasoned virtual drafter to our banter-filled discussion about rivalries, draft disasters, and unforgettable tales, like Scott's dream of Dave and Dale's Tonka computer challenges. And yes, we do bring up that bottom-dwelling drunk, Travis!
Now, let's talk strategy. Mikey spills some secret sauce on how to master the draft, while we dissect Dale and Brian's talent-crush and their pick of top players. We can't forget about Mikey's Bears, the Tricel umbrellas, and that audacious 'Ain't Going to Suck Itself Nation' team. We stir up memories from last year's draft results, and ponder the impact of expanding keepers from two to three - the suspense is real.
Last but not least, we dig into performances. Mikey puts on his analyst hat, providing a deep-dive into teams like Big Loss and Alabama Slammers. We chew over significant acquisitions like CD Lamb, Lamar Jackson, AJ Dylan, Alvin Kamara, and George Kittle, and speculate on their potential impact. And, don't miss Mikey's take on the Mustang Ranchers' draft strategy and his sneaky method of outbidding Dale for the coveted players. So, gather 'round, fantasy football enthusiasts, this one's a riot!
Prepare to be entertained as we welcome Mikey Walsh, founding member of the Slinging Sammies Fantasy Football league. This guy brings the charm of a seasoned virtual drafter to our banter-filled discussion about rivalries, draft disasters, and unforgettable tales, like Scott's dream of Dave and Dale's Tonka computer challenges. And yes, we do bring up that bottom-dwelling drunk, Travis!
Now, let's talk strategy. Mikey spills some secret sauce on how to master the draft, while we dissect Dale and Brian's talent-crush and their pick of top players. We can't forget about Mikey's Bears, the Tricel umbrellas, and that audacious 'Ain't Going to Suck Itself Nation' team. We stir up memories from last year's draft results, and ponder the impact of expanding keepers from two to three - the suspense is real.
Last but not least, we dig into performances. Mikey puts on his analyst hat, providing a deep-dive into teams like Big Loss and Alabama Slammers. We chew over significant acquisitions like CD Lamb, Lamar Jackson, AJ Dylan, Alvin Kamara, and George Kittle, and speculate on their potential impact. And, don't miss Mikey's take on the Mustang Ranchers' draft strategy and his sneaky method of outbidding Dale for the coveted players. So, gather 'round, fantasy football enthusiasts, this one's a riot!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Slinging Sammies Fantasy Football podcast. I'm here, me Chris All.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Chris, chris, chris, chris, and we have a special guest Scott.
Speaker 1:we introduce our special guest tonight.
Speaker 3:Hi. Well, there is my brother-in-law, Mikey Walsh. Glad to have Mikey aboard, and we actually, before the podcast, we've been discussing some of the rule code proposals and refining them, so we thank him for his help. So welcome Mikey.
Speaker 2:Pleasure to be here, gentlemen.
Speaker 1:And this is our fantasy football first. We've never had Mikey on this podcast before, so it's a great opportunity to be here. Mike, we're so glad you could be here with us. You've been one of our founding members. How long have you been on this, lee? 30?
Speaker 2:years, Since the second year the league was in play.
Speaker 1:I think I want to remember I might have been the second year. You were the original OG right the first year.
Speaker 3:No, I think I was the only original OG. I think I was the only real OG because I replaced the team and then I think you, mikey, and Dave and Dale came in the second year.
Speaker 1:We all came at the same time. Yeah, wow. So, mikey, why don't we have you here for a couple of moments? Just so you guys know, in our fantasy football draft we usually have 10 teams. We hang out in Reno, nevada at the Grand Sierra. We hang out around. Thursday we play golf. Friday we go to the breweries and hang out the pool. Saturday is pool time draft time. Mike. Unfortunately he's gone through a bit of life experiences and he was quite far away. Very difficult for him to actually show up for the life of the draft. And one of our few virtual drafters, mike, what is it like to be a virtual drafter and your perspective and things that you have a unique experience with that you want to be able to complain about or compliment the people in our league.
Speaker 2:Well, when you're drafting virtually, you're usually a little bit more sober than the rest of the league. What I know crazy, there's a little less nudity than is there live, apparently. So there seems to be quite a few delays that take place.
Speaker 1:And what would you actually do with these delays from.
Speaker 2:Usually Chris Me, yeah, chris and Scott playing grab ass.
Speaker 1:No, I can't deny that.
Speaker 3:It's not. You know, I gotta say it's not Chris and I I know the culprit, but I'm not going to say the name. So Travis, oh, did I say Travis?
Speaker 1:Oh, I think you said bottom dwelling, bottom dwelling, drunk I think.
Speaker 3:I said monk Calling out people.
Speaker 1:What do you mean? A lasting robot? In your experience, who is like your, probably most the person that you have the most rivalry with? Oh, scott, easily Scott. Okay, yeah, scott.
Speaker 2:And then probably Doug.
Speaker 1:Doug is my brother-in-law, so this is like a brother-in-law feud. I like this. So what brings out the worst?
Speaker 3:Chris, when he said he just can't get it up when he plays Dave, that's what he's saying Just can't get it up when he plays dryling.
Speaker 1:Why can't you get that way with me?
Speaker 2:Why can't I get it with Dave?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, we just can't get it up because it's Dave.
Speaker 2:It's hard to be a rival when you don't win.
Speaker 3:You say he's a bottom dwelling. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:Now, Scott, can I talk about Dave? We're kind of our center of focus right now. Will you tell me about your dream of Dave last night?
Speaker 3:I had no dreams of Dave. That's not true. That is not true. I did not dream of Dave, so I did not dream of Dave. Do you dream of Dave? No, you told me you had dreams of Dave. I did not have a dream of Dave.
Speaker 1:Okay, I said I had a thought.
Speaker 3:A thought that's different than a dream.
Speaker 1:At night, when you're in bed.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm like oh, I sure hope he's getting to house for tonight, I sure hope he's getting to house for, definitely getting to house for tonight, poor Dave.
Speaker 1:Which Dave are we talking about, by the way?
Speaker 3:Both, Both okay. Thanks, Jer. I think of every single person in our fanciful league every night before I go to bed. It kind of helps me fall asleep.
Speaker 1:Now, Mikey, what kind of trash. Would you like to talk to my brother-in-law, Doug Johnson?
Speaker 2:I don't know. He trashed me in the playoffs so many times. It's not even funny, I just felt like he knocked me out of the playoffs at least five or six times.
Speaker 1:Well, you were right. Who knocked you out last year?
Speaker 2:No, Championship game. It's hard to remember. It seems like there was this fluke thing that happened that allowed Chris to win.
Speaker 1:Which is actually true. We actually have league proposals going out because of the move that I had. Now, scott, yes, sir, you're doing a great job on your side of the ball Like we go to this fantasy draft. We have most of our members usually there, I think, usually two to three, maybe sometimes up. Show up. What is your perspective on the fantasy draft experience?
Speaker 3:On the fantasy draft experience. So yeah, we often are in the pool very long. There's a lot of drinking involved. That drinking usually means we're usually hung over Friday and that rules in the Saturday and people start off slow but they quickly gain steam around one o'clock, crazy enough. And then we all assemble in the in the draft room, Dale brings his I don't know Tonka, Tonka computer, I don't know what it's called Tonka or Ugo computer. He's got to figure it out. He's got to figure out how to get the Wi-Fi with this computer that doesn't even connect to the internet. And then Travis is stumbling around and Chris just has no idea what's going on. He's sitting off in a corner, just got a bastard and and and they like what's going on?
Speaker 3:bitches. And that's pretty much the draft experience. And all of a sudden we go and everybody gets serious for like the next two hours sort of, when we're not grabbing ass.
Speaker 1:So who actually rings it in during this time, like actually participates in the draft and has knowledge about what they're doing, and who is pretty much two sheets to the wind Dale.
Speaker 3:Even with his Tonka Tonka toy laptop, Dale knows what's going on. He's not. He comes in. He hasn't drank with us all day. You'll have a couple beers when he's there, but he knows the most of what's by what's going on.
Speaker 1:So who? So you see, dale's kind of like that secret, like what do you call it agent out there. He's the one that's like trying to say sober, you have a secret agent I'm babbling here Um lack of better words but like he's the one that's that going to say sober, he's going to be the one that's going to have the best draft with strategy that is actually participating in.
Speaker 3:I think so. His draft is. I mean the draft results kind of show themselves and you know, there's always work, you know that Dale's Dale's. He's a rookie guy right, he gets the. He likes the young guys. So he drops really young all the time and I mean some years. It pays off Some years it doesn't pay off.
Speaker 3:I mean it doesn't always pay off going that way, but the last few times he's done it I mean, well, he did Sorry, dale, either a tangent, but he also had a lot of injuries down the stretch. So I think Dale's the guy that that gets the job done. I mean, what would Chris? Let me ask you Hmm, and I was Christine, mike, the same question how are you when you're at the draft? Are you like someone, dan, or how do you feel?
Speaker 2:Well, I think because the last few years you guys have ranked me just about dead last after the draft. That tells you a lot about my study habits.
Speaker 1:Well, it is kind of a tradition to put you dead last after the draft because you weren't there. Well, I would say like usually I have enough knowledge to be able to like put those podcasts and listening to other things and reading a few things. But I have a chance. I feel like I have a good draft idea going into the draft. However, the weeks worth of festivities tend to degrade my knowledge of what I'm actually doing.
Speaker 3:Are you saying we bring you down? Is that what you're saying, Chris?
Speaker 1:Yes, okay. Now I mean I was telling my wife the other day, mike, you know she was upset about some of her friends acting childish and I said it's when you get back together with your high school a certain in this case for high school friends, for us is color crime when you get back together with these people, you start to revert back to that mentality and unfortunately I'm probably the biggest lightweight of the whole group and so that affects me in a negative way.
Speaker 3:Thanks for a great car ride home on Sunday.
Speaker 1:There's been a couple that have had not great experience.
Speaker 3:Nothing's worse than Vegas. Nothing's worse than the Vegas trip. So let's take a look.
Speaker 1:Would you look at draft strategies? I'm just looking at the first team that you have listed here Scott, we're on zoom right now and he has like the whole roster is lifted. I'm just gonna go by what I see number one, I see San Francisco fourth and Niners, mike. What do you think? The draft strategies of this team Obviously hold on to Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2:That's the thing. Figuring out his keepers is going to be pretty easy. I don't see much to really worry about. I imagine he's going to keep James Conner.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's gonna see you through, if you're at three, or maybe that person just goes with two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it may just be those two.
Speaker 3:I think your roster sucks, Chris. I don't know how the fuck you won the championship last year. That's how I'm gonna go on record.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't gotta be good, you gotta be lucky.
Speaker 3:Sometimes you need Lamar Hamlin to win the championship last year. I don't know how you did it.
Speaker 1:So, in general, Mike, how does this team draft over the years? Good, bad or sad?
Speaker 3:Who you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Well you're asking me Little road on average, huh, middle of the road.
Speaker 1:Middle of the road. Okay, scott, how do?
Speaker 3:you feel about that team, your team.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Over the years. How do I?
Speaker 3:draft. Oh, you've been a paper tiger at least a few years You've been on. You've been good on paper, so we'll give you that.
Speaker 1:Now we look at the second team. I see over here the Chaitone Brawlers, which happens to be Mikey's team. Right there, Mikey, how do you feel like you do in the draft?
Speaker 2:I always have money left over. I'm not great about capitalizing my spending because I'm usually too gun shy to go after the big-dollar players. And why is that? If you go and look at my past rosters, I don't think I've got maybe more than one or two years where I've spent more than $40 on a player. When you see some of these guys, I remember years that Emmett Smith was going for like $70 or something like that. It was just insane what people were spending on a single player. I've never been that way, so I'd rather have the variety and people I can plug in when an injury happens than going for that one guy that's going to be pretty much a lock to score a bunch of points than it's going to drain the rest of your roster from quality and do you feel that this is a good draft strategy?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I've only won once.
Speaker 1:It's not good or bad, it's just a pity. Maybe not Sometimes you just get bad luck and there's that. You know there's good luck and obviously last year I don't feel like I had the best team in the league, but I actually got lucky. That's what it runs down to, but do you feel like you strategize well in a draft?
Speaker 2:Well, let me put it this way. I distinctly remember a year where I went big on Michael Vick and the day we drafted he broke his leg in the preseason game and was gone for the. It made me gun shy for the rest of my drafts, I'll put it that way. So it draft time is stressful for me because I never know how to properly spend.
Speaker 1:Do you think it'd be helpful to be three sheets in the wind, like most of people in the draft that are doing it?
Speaker 2:It probably would help to lower my inhibitions a bit, Just say fuck it, go for it. How?
Speaker 1:do you feel about?
Speaker 2:Michael.
Speaker 3:Vick, you say Chris Fortune favors the bull. That is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2:Yes, definitely can.
Speaker 1:So, scott, how do you feel about the Tricel umbrellas and their drafts over the year?
Speaker 3:Ah no, I think Mike has always sold a draft. I mean sometimes Mike is fighting against that proclivity to draft the Bears, but I mean that's also hard because it's like your favorite team and you kind of want to have players from your favorite team that you can root for. But sometimes that's also a double-edged sword. So we always like to give Mike a little good ribbing when he selects some Chicago Bears. Same thing with the Duggee and the Philly, and if you and Dave draft any 49ers. So but I think Mike is always solid and I think he actually had pretty good drafts last year. So I mean, just you know the players are good there, awesome awesome.
Speaker 1:I think same. I think Mike is a solid drafter. He usually has a good game plan and comes in. And I would say the only negative I think Mike alluded to it you end up. When you end up having more money in the draft than you should at the end that means you probably went gun-chide a few people that you probably could have had. That may have improved your chances. That would be my only critique. But otherwise Mike usually has a solid draft and has good players. I usually am more of a proponent of Mike's team Scott usually I think it's you that's a little more negative on his team over the years.
Speaker 2:That's a hate.
Speaker 1:At the beginning.
Speaker 3:He was going to hate.
Speaker 1:So let's take a look at it. It ain't going to suck itself nation. What do you guys think about his teams?
Speaker 3:So OK. So how much? How much reference do we got? We got. So I think you said his name because I think we consistently rate it ain't going to suck itself nation. You think it has no knowledge of football, but he seems to pull out of always a good draft and I think he always. So I mentioned we talked about who's the best. I think actually Dale and I think probably Brian is probably the other good drafter and I don't know how to be honest with you, how the fuck he does it.
Speaker 1:So well, you look at his reserve. Right now he's got Brian. You could be a keeper. But, he's got $8. He's got out down in Madison at six bucks for next year.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and either this is the draft results, right, this is the draft. So because if we were talking about draft, just look at the draft results.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and usually his team comes. He's usually got the two of the top three keepers every year, I mean, and in reality that puts him in number one spot before going into the draft so every year. So from that perspective he does a really good job draft.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because he started with the top five. I receiver top three, tied in top two maybe. And Jay says didn't pan out. But, yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1:Mikey, what do you think about any second self nation?
Speaker 2:I mean I would have loved to have Tony Pollard last year. So I mean that guy like that was an absolute steal.
Speaker 1:Well, it's going to be more of a steal next year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seriously, yeah, I think it's. He's always putting up quality drafts, so I can't complain too much about his strategy.
Speaker 3:I don't see any bad picks there. Like I mean, I can't remember what we said after the draft, but there was like there's looking and reflecting and there's nothing that's bad. I mean, yeah, of course. Yeah, Matthew Stathford still a good pick, but $3.00. And of course he had a down year and he got hurt, but he still got Dak Prescott as another guy.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and going into the draft, Going into the draft when you got Dak Sikwon Barkley, I mean Marquis Brown, stefan Diggs, I mean he's got loaded talent on there from last year.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They might not have all performed as you said, but going into it he looked pretty stacked.
Speaker 1:Well, you look at keeper leagues like could we get to keep three people in each league? I'm going to be struggling to find three where he's going to be struggling to find who am I, who am I going to have to cut? That's a good problem to have but it's not what I have.
Speaker 3:I hate that problem. No, it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 1:It's a good problem to have, so bringing the San Harbor Boilermakers? How does San? I think, scott, you kind of gave your opinion on this. This is Dale Straff. He's one of our top drafters, oh yeah, dale, always he goes young.
Speaker 3:He used to go felons, but then he switched to strategy and I think that was probably a good strategy shift. He switched from felons to the guys that are young. So he I mean look at, look at this In pre-Saw, uh 거 nursing uh 겨 forces for a dollar, a dollar I mean easily. Did he get the record year? I think he did, or close to it, top two or three, andاي scienceology Lab, a trees, more派, and while grandpad Sir he choose the휘. Yeah, mocha receiver, huge Brian Robinson, still really good. So I keep the guy got shot and still put up good numbers. Child large here. I think it's still going to be a good player, potentially. My God, I'm going to say Brown Same brown as a stud, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, jaylen Wild for 10 bucks. Wow, that's a good deal. Everything he was got more $2. Still great, because there's he doesn't have much competition. Tony gets hurt like every five minutes. So my God, I mean he had this is to me like he had one of the most perfect drafts. I think if this draft makes you want to cry, it's so good.
Speaker 1:So we'll have to go back to it in our next podcast. But, like you know, keeping three players from that list is going to be very difficult for him because he can only be free Good, good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Now bring this to our next year, which is the nap of prime. My other brother, well, from the other side of the family, how do you think he drafts? Good question, let's take this one.
Speaker 3:I, you know. Well, that's the step back. I mean, how do we all drafts, right, you, you, it's like the Mike Tyson code, right you all? Everybody has a good plan until they get punched in the mouth, and that's basically what it is for oxygen drafts. I mean, that's you. You may have a plan like oh, I have this guy, this value, I really like this guy, he's going to be on my list. But things start flying and you know, you just don't know where it's going to go. It's like okay, oh, I thought I could get this guy for like $5. Next thing is at $25. And then you have the whole thing with like oh well, I got to, I don't have a running back, but this guy's at 50 and I got to get somebody. That's really good. So just a step back for a second. When they have a prime, like you have to, it's something you constantly have to think about.
Speaker 1:Well, I think you know, and kind of piggyback on what you're saying, I think that prime is the opposite of Mikey here, where he goes big on a lot of players and then kind of scrambles to find tail end players in the reserve category. So you know, you look at Christian McCaffey at 63, which is you could probably be with number one pick in snake draft next year. Nick Chubb 36 cam acres. Well, the last 10. That's not so big deal. Mike Evans 40 bucks. Now, he's not afraid to spend the big money on the big players.
Speaker 2:I mean it's put 140 bucks into two running backs and a wide receiver. That doesn't leave a lot of money left to fill out the rest of your roster. But if those are your primary scores it may work.
Speaker 1:And you got Travis Kelsey too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I would say just say see, Santa Rosa Shankers. I mean it's basically the same draft philosophy, so go go big or go home, yeah.
Speaker 1:And that can work and we've seen it work and it's also failed miserably when people get hurt.
Speaker 2:So you think I have a great draft.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess what's the name of the game, though? Is you want to win or not, right? Yeah, it just doesn't leave you with a lot of first losers.
Speaker 2:It just doesn't leave you with a lot of keepers, unless you happen to strike gold with some of your $1 players.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when you have keeper leagues, when you look at like Dale's team, kind of the office strategy, mike he's team you guys got you'll possibly for great keepers, but Napa, prime and you're talking about Dale, dave Monk as well, those guys are sorry. Travis actually does too. Go big or go home.
Speaker 3:Don't tell me Dale's draft. Every time I look at it I just want to weave.
Speaker 1:And we look at the Philly Pass attack. What do you guys think about the Philly Pass attack?
Speaker 3:Too many Eagles.
Speaker 1:So basically his downfall is picking Community Eagles.
Speaker 3:No, because Eagles are pretty good, so that's probably not a good, at least right now. They're pretty good, so that's not a downfall. But yeah, pretty balanced. I mean right, no, we got we didn't big a loss in Eckler 60 bucks, but you're going to get a top running back. I mean you got to do that. He had no running backs going in. He had a tight and quarterback wide receiver, which is a little bit of an odd combination of keepers. Normally people try to keep running backs, but you know he spent big there but he didn't go too bad the rest of the way. But again, I'm like Mikey's in the last thing. You know it's almost $120 on three players Eckler, higgins and Pittman. So he didn't have a lot of left over after that.
Speaker 1:So he's a go big or go home kind of player too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's probably why he didn't. He didn't make playoffs. No, did he make a plus? I don't know. He did.
Speaker 1:And what do you think, mikey, about that team?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he had some good carryover guys like CD lamb. But again it looks to me like you put his entire draft and Eckler and I don't know, I don't have the guts to do something like that. So some years it'll pay off, some years it'll blow up in your face.
Speaker 1:Yeah that's very, very actually correct, I must say All right, so scrolls down to what you have next Slammers. What about the Alabama Slammers? So also at Mikey's turn, this is what I'll.
Speaker 3:Yeah, here we go, Mikey. I can't see his roster, so that's going to be hard, oh sorry, so you would be with Kamara at $50, debo Sanel at $41. Those were his big acquisitions. And then you know everything else. You kept Stevenson, javante, williams, who got hurt, mike Williams he apparently likes Williams, apparently, so he spent money. He spent some money, but you know, I mean injury bug sucks.
Speaker 2:Debo.
Speaker 3:Sanel was hurt. You got an ACL. Did Michael Williams play the whole season last year for the Chargers?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 3:I thought he'd get hurt a little bit, but he started out hot and he got it, cool, I think, if I remember right. So he spent $91 on two players. That was kind of tough. You know, he's uh, the Slammers have been playing a little bit from behind because they've struggled with some keepers. This year it seemed like they had a really good set of keepers. I mean you put Stevenson and Williams. I mean those are two of the guys that people thought, oh, these guys are going to be studs, and Stevenson has been killer for him. Unfortunately, williams got Javante, williams got hurt. So I think for him he was like, hey, let's put some pieces around this. You know, let's get Kittle tied in. That's pretty good. Just talking about four bucks. You don't go back kickers. That's a steal for $4. You got them. Or Jackson, unfortunately you got hurt. But so I think I think David a great chance to kind of come back to the fold because he's been kind of having struggling with keepers and then Dave rebugging him. Unfortunately my mouse might take.
Speaker 2:I'm never going to fall to ride with a kicker that can hit 55 plus yarders anytime he wants. Yeah.
Speaker 3:With a narrow goalpost. With a narrow, you can put it like five meters, he's still probably hit it.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Chris? What do you think about?
Speaker 1:I feel like this is the bad luck team, what there is a lot of. Well, let's maybe a case point like AJ Dylan. Aj Dylan right now may not look like a sexy pick. Dave got him at $14 last year At the beginning of the draft. He was looking like he was going to take over the number one spot in Green Bay and he was like the big buzz guy of the year. Didn't pan out.
Speaker 1:Alvin Kamara me a bit of a stretch at $58, but if that guy was going to get a good to go I know he's had legal problems at the beginning of the year If he was to perform at the level that he was doing, he would have been one of the top 10 running backs. Last year Didn't happen. Romney Stevenson same thing. The guy was a stud but he has some great games but he's in New England and so there was some unlucky there. I guess you could say and look at George Kittle, deepo Samuel Both of those guys had like off years last year. I would say for what they're going to be able to do this year, I would expect that both those players are going to be a little bit better than they were last year, but it just seemed like everybody that he had Lamar Jackson as well. Those guys are all had regression last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you look at the same, the one that had a lot of upside in the year. It'll be interesting to see if Lamar actually bounces back now that he's done with his contract and negotiations.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it really will. What brings us to our next team, which is the Mustang Ranchers. What?
Speaker 2:Yeah, fuck that guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that guy's terrible. What is your idea of this guy's draft strategy? Does he have one?
Speaker 2:He's pretty much read every piece of information there is and usually over-thinks the draft.
Speaker 1:He's a classical thinker, right.
Speaker 2:Yep, but he also gets a number of guys that are steals that none of us have ever heard of.
Speaker 3:Yes, Romeo Dove, baby Romeo Dove.
Speaker 1:I would say this guy really doesn't have much of a plan. You look at his roster. I feel like he's just got lucky at best.
Speaker 2:When it happens every year, it's not luck, Chris.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, it's just pure luck. He's just one of the lucky people in the world.
Speaker 3:Why the fuck did I drop Justin Fields? I still don't know why I had him for a fucking dollar.
Speaker 2:And I thank you for it.
Speaker 3:I'm like I got whatever, whatever I had.
Speaker 2:Joe Burroughs, like I don't need Justin Fields.
Speaker 3:Come on, you know.
Speaker 2:Why the hell did I drop Pacheco?
Speaker 3:Actually, I went to the draft. I didn't have a quarterback, so I had Fields in car. I can't do this and that's right. At the draft, I traded Travis Adam Thielen for Joe Burroughs, which is ridiculous, so that's why I felt confident in dropping him. So but you're right, Mikey, Mikey's actually right. I do overthink things a lot, A lot. There's a lot of roster baiting that draft verbating, that goes on.
Speaker 2:So God's doing calculus every year.
Speaker 3:But my general strategy is not to go big and I went big this year in running backs. That's not my general way to go. Maybe occasionally, maybe once it would be three or four years, but then not intend to go in the draft, spending $100 and doing mixed in the nods of Harris.
Speaker 1:Well, in all honesty, I actually do think that you have some of the best draft strategies going in. You know probably the most anybody in the draft about each of the players, possibilities of them being good, and you know how to roll dice on which players to go. But a lot of times when I'm actually because we do an auction draft, a lot of times the players that I'm actually trying to bid to get Scott, you're usually the person in my competition for I love getting his leftovers.
Speaker 3:Yeah, competitions.
Speaker 1:I'm very competition about the players that you pick, but you generally have a great strategy. You know what you're doing, but I would agree with Mikey, sometimes you just overthink it. Now, sometimes I think you're actually looking at me, looking at other people in the draft and trying to bid up players, knowing that we want them.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I do that all the time, and then you get stuck with some salaries that I think you don't want.
Speaker 3:I didn't get stuck this year. I really didn't. Well, maybe nod your hair so I wasn't crazy about everybody that I had on there. I actually okay, okay, moving in, feeling it in one Okay, you're 100% correct, I want to DK back. I wanted, I was going to get the kid back up, no matter what it was, and I was validated for that big, so you know, you know, you know you play, you know how to draft and you do a solid job every year.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I got my Romeo dubs.
Speaker 1:And you got your Christian Watson.
Speaker 3:No some of the other guys got him.
Speaker 3:Right yeah, I see him right on your roster right now. Oh, I picked him up at some point. He got dropped or I don't know what happened, but I really wanted to dobs because he was a Nevada player. So Shankers, shankers, what do we think about the Shankers? See, now for prime. He goes big, so we all know. So Mikey never sees this, but the husband knows he happened the last year or two. But Shankers Travis has always been proud of the fact that he goes big, gets big. At the very start, I think he was lays on his bed and picks a few players here and there at $1. So that's kind of the strategy for the Shankers. But so he went big on Henry and Jones and wow, and Kaden Allen. He actually had a decent look at draft. I mean, he started off the solid, tight end, shaky wide receiver and Joe Borough, which he traded to me, thank you. But he usually goes bigger, go home. He's the epitome of go bigger, go home, in my opinion. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1:Mikey, have you even met Travis yet?
Speaker 2:I don't think so.
Speaker 1:I don't think so either, but judging from your at home virtual drafting, what do you know about his drafts?
Speaker 2:Well, like Scott said, he goes big early, but I didn't realize. He then checks out for the next hour and a half, oh yeah check out that but yeah. I believe someone is going to go, spend a lot of money to try and get those marquee players.
Speaker 1:So what do you think of the North cow wines in there now?
Speaker 3:So North cow is probably the most Jekyll high team in this league. I think he's finished last a couple of times and I think he's finished first a couple of times. I think it's like but if there's no Leslie boom or bust, you look at who he selected, who he went big on Devonte Adams, tyree Kill I think we'd all agree. Those are probably, at least in football, top five receivers. Those guys are studs. That's where he spent the most of his money and we also went to the PPR league, so that kind of bodes well for him there as well too. And he went scary Terry as well, too. Scary Terry McLaren, who just it's just bad quarterbacks. That has that. That's kind of plagued him. But he's got a pretty good balance approach. I don't know if he's intending to do it because, like the rest of us, he's using pretty three sheets of the wind, but pretty balanced guys that he got. I don't know. Sometimes I want to crawl in the mind of Dave Monk, sometimes I don't. What do you think?
Speaker 1:Well, you know, at being his wayman during the fantasy football draft, is one of the few single people there. I try to help him out with these things and come up with things like hey, some girls couldn't remember his name, I just remember Dushy Dave, and that's the best I can come up with for Dave.
Speaker 3:You know what? I've never heard you say that before. Yeah, I've heard that before.
Speaker 1:Yeah, basically I'm the opposite of what you want for a weekend. Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3:I thought, you were married.
Speaker 1:I'm married, but like trying to help him out, like get the girls, and my way of helping him out is to have them remember that his name is Dushy Dave, which he's not. He's a great guy and I just happen to be the best we love Monk, we love Monk.
Speaker 3:Monk is sometimes a batter ram and so some of the things that we're too inhibited to do, inhibited, inhibited, inhibited. Whatever to do, he kind of just breaks through like I remember a couple of times at the country bar I remember we got yelled at by that old guy. He's gonna get yelled at by the old guy or he's getting the cops are coming because he's molesting a robot, or you know.
Speaker 1:A few guys. That's actually been thrown out of the casino a few times.
Speaker 3:That makes for a great story. So thank you, monk.
Speaker 2:GSR is so touchy about who gets to molest a robot.
Speaker 1:The worst part. He wasn't the only one doing it, though.
Speaker 3:He was the driving was not molesting. The problem with Dave the dry lane is that he looks like he's guilty.
Speaker 1:And he did nothing.
Speaker 3:He did nothing. He did nothing. By the way, he wanted to leave Monk, but I said, no, we can't leave Monk. That story may or may not be true, but no, he was like, yeah, you know, we only need one, dave, in this league. So you know.
Speaker 1:He was trying to get other people in and he was like I guess it was, but you're a cow.
Speaker 3:You're a cow. I don't know, maybe I need to look at the records, but he's not a boomer or bus guy, but he's somehow some way. You know he falls into some good players. Those are good players on his roster Air Rogers, yucu. Khalil Herbert actually has been pretty solid, even Datsunapalmer. I think Dave, I think Monk is secretly doing research and he's not telling us and he feels like he's ah, whatever, this is a guy that drafted. I think he's like Transformers. He's more than UCI.
Speaker 1:No, I agree, the guy's incredibly intelligent, but he's probably the most single guy there that's how you describe it and the draft is fun for him, but at the same time, I think he's also one of the heavier gamblers there him and Travis and so I think their priority might be there.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I think, so that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1:We covered everybody yeah we got them all, Wow. Draft strategies for the Sling, Samys if I can speak, Sling and Samys. Fnatic football Lee, we've gone through every team.
Speaker 3:That's incredible. So I think the next podcast you already know. I think we'll dive deep into the existing rosters and we'll try to talk about which player every team is going to keep. And I think it's a great idea, chris, we'll throw the podcast thing out there with everybody else. If anybody else wants to join, you're more than welcome. I should also say that now that we've kind of refined the rule codes, I will send them out tomorrow. Now that Chris is not going to be me nobber, I will send them out and yeah, frowny face and basically give people to like the third or the fourth, whatever. We'll pick a date to vote and then we'll go from there. That was a good plan.
Speaker 1:All right, mikey, I want to thank you so much for being on our podcast. Scott, thank you as always. You're an amazing podcast person and partner. We're going to sign off here and just want to say thank you and hopefully you too, have a great weekend and everybody listening all three of you Last thoughts?
Speaker 3:What, yeah, last thoughts. I want to be blessed and I won't deny. There you go. Who's the last?
Speaker 2:thought oh no, no, we're going to have a last one.
Speaker 1:Mikey, can you just any way you can salvage this show? No, just end it. All right, that's the end of our podcast. Thank you, everybody, peace out.