Slinging Sammy's Fantasy Football Podcast
Welcome to the Slinging Sammy's Fantasy Football Podcast, a one-of-a-kind show that combines the thrill of fantasy football with the delightful world of craft brews! I'm your host Chris Auld, and I'm joined by my good friend and co-host Scott the functional alcoholic Scott Chatham. Together, we'll take you on an unforgettable journey through the highs and lows of the Slinging Sammy's Fantasy Football League, all while savoring some fantastic craft beers along the way.
Each week, we'll huddle up to analyze the latest results from our league, breaking down every matchup, and sharing our triumphs and heartbreaks as we compete for fantasy glory. Expect insightful analysis, bold predictions, and plenty of friendly banter as we navigate the unpredictable terrain of fantasy football.
But wait, there's more! Before we get into the gridiron action, we'll kick off each episode by cracking open a new craft brew. Whether it's a crisp and refreshing lager, a hoppy and aromatic IPA, or a smooth and velvety stout, we'll explore a diverse range of flavors that the craft beer world has to offer. Our passion for craft brews is as strong as our love for football, and we can't wait to share our latest findings and recommendations with you.
Not only will we discuss the intricate nuances of each beer, but we'll also discuss how they pair with various game-day snacks and meals. After all, what's better than enjoying a great beer while watching your fantasy team dominate the competition?
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Slinging Sammy's Fantasy Football Podcast
Inside the Mind of a Fantasy Football Master: Mikey Walsh
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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 2No, no, no, Chris, chris, chris, chris, and we have a special guest Scott.
Speaker 1we introduce our special guest tonight.
Speaker 3Hi. 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 2Pleasure to be here, gentlemen.
Speaker 1And 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 2years, Since the second year the league was in play.
Speaker 1I think I want to remember I might have been the second year. You were the original OG right the first year.
Speaker 3No, 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 1We 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 2Well, 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 1And what would you actually do with these delays from.
Speaker 2Usually Chris Me, yeah, chris and Scott playing grab ass.
Speaker 1No, I can't deny that.
Speaker 3It'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 1Oh, I think you said bottom dwelling, bottom dwelling, drunk I think.
Speaker 3I said monk Calling out people.
Speaker 1What 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 2And then probably Doug.
Speaker 1Doug is my brother-in-law, so this is like a brother-in-law feud. I like this. So what brings out the worst?
Speaker 3Chris, 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 1Why can't you get that way with me?
Speaker 2Why can't I get it with Dave?
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, we just can't get it up because it's Dave.
Speaker 2It's hard to be a rival when you don't win.
Speaker 3You say he's a bottom dwelling. No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1Now, 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 3I 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 1Okay, I said I had a thought.
Speaker 3A thought that's different than a dream.
Speaker 1At night, when you're in bed.
Speaker 3Yes, 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 1Which Dave are we talking about, by the way?
Speaker 3Both, 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 1Now, Mikey, what kind of trash. Would you like to talk to my brother-in-law, Doug Johnson?
Speaker 2I 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 1Well, you were right. Who knocked you out last year?
Speaker 2No, Championship game. It's hard to remember. It seems like there was this fluke thing that happened that allowed Chris to win.
Speaker 1Which 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 3On 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 3bitches. 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 1So 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 3Even 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 1So 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 3I 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 3I 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 2Well, 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 1Well, 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 3Are you saying we bring you down? Is that what you're saying, Chris?
Speaker 1Yes, 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 3Thanks for a great car ride home on Sunday.
Speaker 1There's been a couple that have had not great experience.
Speaker 3Nothing's worse than Vegas. Nothing's worse than the Vegas trip. So let's take a look.
Speaker 1Would 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 2That'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 1Yeah, he's gonna see you through, if you're at three, or maybe that person just goes with two.
Speaker 2Yeah, it may just be those two.
Speaker 3I 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 1Yeah, you don't gotta be good, you gotta be lucky.
Speaker 3Sometimes you need Lamar Hamlin to win the championship last year. I don't know how you did it.
Speaker 1So, in general, Mike, how does this team draft over the years? Good, bad or sad?
Speaker 3Who you?
Speaker 2Yeah, Well you're asking me Little road on average, huh, middle of the road.
Speaker 1Middle of the road. Okay, scott, how do?
Speaker 3you feel about that team, your team.
Speaker 1Yeah, Over the years. How do I?
Speaker 3draft. 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 1Now 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 2I 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 2I don't know, I've only won once.
Speaker 1It'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?
Assessing Draft Strategies for Fantasy Football
Speaker 2Well, 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 1Do 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 2It probably would help to lower my inhibitions a bit, Just say fuck it, go for it. How?
Speaker 1do you feel about?
Speaker 2Michael.
Speaker 3Vick, you say Chris Fortune favors the bull. That is what you're trying to say.
Speaker 2Yes, definitely can.
Speaker 1So, scott, how do you feel about the Tricel umbrellas and their drafts over the year?
Speaker 3Ah 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 1I 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 2That's a hate.
Speaker 1At the beginning.
Speaker 3He was going to hate.
Speaker 1So let's take a look at it. It ain't going to suck itself nation. What do you guys think about his teams?
Speaker 3So 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 1So 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 3Yeah, 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 1Yeah, 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 3Yeah, 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 1Mikey, what do you think about any second self nation?
Speaker 2I mean I would have loved to have Tony Pollard last year. So I mean that guy like that was an absolute steal.
Speaker 1Well, it's going to be more of a steal next year.
Speaker 2Yeah, seriously, yeah, I think it's. He's always putting up quality drafts, so I can't complain too much about his strategy.
Speaker 3I 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 2So 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 3Yeah.
Speaker 2They might not have all performed as you said, but going into it he looked pretty stacked.
Speaker 1Well, 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 3I hate that problem. No, it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 1It'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 3He 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 3Yeah, 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 1So 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 3Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1Now 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 3I, 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 1Well, 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 2I 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 1And you got Travis Kelsey too.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 1And that can work and we've seen it work and it's also failed miserably when people get hurt.
Speaker 2So you think I have a great draft.
Speaker 1I 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 2It just doesn't leave you with a lot of keepers, unless you happen to strike gold with some of your $1 players.
Speaker 1Yeah, 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 3Don't tell me Dale's draft. Every time I look at it I just want to weave.
Speaker 1And we look at the Philly Pass attack. What do you guys think about the Philly Pass attack?
Speaker 3Too many Eagles.
Speaker 1So basically his downfall is picking Community Eagles.
Assessing Fantasy Football Team Performances
Speaker 3No, 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 1So he's a go big or go home kind of player too.
Speaker 3Yeah, 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 1And what do you think, mikey, about that team?
Speaker 2Yeah, 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 1Yeah 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 3Yeah, 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 2Debo.
Speaker 3Sanel was hurt. You got an ACL. Did Michael Williams play the whole season last year for the Chargers?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 3I 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 2I'm never going to fall to ride with a kicker that can hit 55 plus yarders anytime he wants. Yeah.
Speaker 3With a narrow goalpost. With a narrow, you can put it like five meters, he's still probably hit it.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 3Chris? What do you think about?
Speaker 1I 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 1Alvin 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 2Yeah, 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.
Fantasy Football Draft Strategies and Performance
Speaker 1Yeah, it really will. What brings us to our next team, which is the Mustang Ranchers. What?
Speaker 2Yeah, fuck that guy.
Speaker 1Yeah, that guy's terrible. What is your idea of this guy's draft strategy? Does he have one?
Speaker 2He's pretty much read every piece of information there is and usually over-thinks the draft.
Speaker 1He's a classical thinker, right.
Speaker 2Yep, but he also gets a number of guys that are steals that none of us have ever heard of.
Speaker 3Yes, Romeo Dove, baby Romeo Dove.
Speaker 1I 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 2When it happens every year, it's not luck, Chris.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, it's just pure luck. He's just one of the lucky people in the world.
Speaker 3Why the fuck did I drop Justin Fields? I still don't know why I had him for a fucking dollar.
Speaker 2And I thank you for it.
Speaker 3I'm like I got whatever, whatever I had.
Speaker 2Joe Burroughs, like I don't need Justin Fields.
Speaker 3Come on, you know.
Speaker 2Why the hell did I drop Pacheco?
Speaker 3Actually, 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 2So God's doing calculus every year.
Speaker 3But 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 1Well, 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 3Yeah, competitions.
Speaker 1I'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 3Oh yeah, I do that all the time, and then you get stuck with some salaries that I think you don't want.
Speaker 3I 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 1Yeah.
Speaker 3And I got my Romeo dubs.
Speaker 1And you got your Christian Watson.
Speaker 3No some of the other guys got him.
Speaker 3Right 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 1Mikey, have you even met Travis yet?
Speaker 2I don't think so.
Speaker 1I don't think so either, but judging from your at home virtual drafting, what do you know about his drafts?
Speaker 2Well, 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 1So what do you think of the North cow wines in there now?
Speaker 3So 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 1Well, 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 3You know what? I've never heard you say that before. Yeah, I've heard that before.
Speaker 1Yeah, basically I'm the opposite of what you want for a weekend. Wait, wait, wait.
Speaker 3I thought, you were married.
Speaker 1I'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 3Monk 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 1A few guys. That's actually been thrown out of the casino a few times.
Speaker 3That makes for a great story. So thank you, monk.
Speaker 2GSR is so touchy about who gets to molest a robot.
Speaker 1The worst part. He wasn't the only one doing it, though.
Speaker 3He was the driving was not molesting. The problem with Dave the dry lane is that he looks like he's guilty.
Speaker 1And he did nothing.
Speaker 3He 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 1He was trying to get other people in and he was like I guess it was, but you're a cow.
Speaker 3You'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 1No, 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 3Yeah. I think, so that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1We 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 3That'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 1All 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 3What, yeah, last thoughts. I want to be blessed and I won't deny. There you go. Who's the last?
Speaker 2thought oh no, no, we're going to have a last one.
Speaker 1Mikey, 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.
