March 12, 2020 • 50 mins
Gregg Sussman is joined by Jen Piacenti to talk about baseball being postponed, drafts being affected, and her horrible, disgusting, no good Astros
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I am Greg Sauceman. She is a better looking Frank
staff all. What's going on? Nph your bay? I am back.
(01:03):
It's so nice to be bad. It's it used to
be like more than once a year, and now it's
once a year. It's about once a year. How are you?
I'm so good. Don't live in New York anymore. And
don't live in New York anymore. I live in l A.
I do appreciate that you've got this nice six long
table for us. You can be at a safe distance
about sports. Yeah, unfortunately, there's not much sports to talk about,
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of course, U because everybody knows that is watching, that
is listening, that is hanging out with us, there are
no sports. UM Baseball, Great Fruit LEA games I've been
canceled as of tomorrow. All spring training. I'm sure it
has been shut down as of tomorrow. UM, there's no
doubt they will push Major League Baseball the opening day
on March back. UM, the a is, the conference tournaments
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have all been canceled. March man Is will be postponed.
I'm quite positive of that. There's no NBA, there's no NHL.
There is still XFL for now. UM we have golf.
I see that in the background over there. I think
there might be nasks are there for now, although I
heard the NASCAR it's going to make an announcement. We'll
see on that. There's no Broadway. There's no Broadway. I
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take us to a Broadway show on Sunday. Was very
excited about it, and I don't get excited for that anymore. UM,
you know we It's funny because it almost took sports
for everyone to kind of treat this very as serious
as it should be. Able to talk all talk baseball
and stuff coming up with this hour, but I think
sports for us to kind of realize like how serious
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it is, right and even me personally speaking, because business
as usual For me, I'm doing my normal thing. I
can't anymore because I don't have the n b A,
I don't have Major League Baseball, I don't have the
NHL MLS. I ain't gonna talk about And for all
of us in New York and all of us around
the country, it was no longer because this as usual.
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We will do everything we can um get through this together,
and we will talk about sports, will make light of things.
We'll talk about big small, we'll talk about rafting right now,
but we'll do all of that over the next hour.
Jenn and I are here. I said, let her look
a frank person. That's why she's huge today in frank
not here right now. Your news update. Hi am Alex
(03:09):
Massana with your sports grid news update here on the
Fantasy bf's it is officially COVID nineteen a k A coronavirus.
Watch the world of sports takes a beating. As you
can see. Here are the official statements. The NHL has
suspended its season. The Major League Baseball is expected to
suspend baseball operations in definitely. The following conferences have canceled
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their men's basketball tournaments. The sec A, CEC, Big Ten,
Big twelve, Pack twelve. You get the point. All conferences
have been canceled for March Madness. However, we are still
awaiting selections. Sunday is still on and planned for Sunday
as of now. However, the one league not being affected
too much by the coronavirus is the NFL. They said
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today that they have quote no plans to move the
start of the league year as of yet. The league, however,
did canceled t annual meeting that was scheduled to be
held in Florida from March twenty nine to April one.
Several teams have also restricted travel for their coaches and
scouts because of the virus. The following teams, Washington Redskins,
New York Chefs, Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins, and the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers were among the teams to pull personnel off
the road and restrict travel. Also, the Philadelphia Eagles won't
send their coaches to the upcoming Para Days year is
scheduled to begin at four pm Eastern on Wednesday, March eighteen.
Teams must use their franchise tag or transition TEGs by
eleven fifty nine Eastern Standard time Monday, and agents are
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pending for free agents to be permitted to talk to
other teams as well. Well, you said it, Greg, there's
not many sports to talk about the preview, but there
is XFL this weekend, so let's give you some lines.
The Houston Roughnecks visit the New York Guardians. Roughnecks are
your six and a half point favorites, the total forty
six and a half. The Dallas Renegades visit the DC Defenders.
Defenders your four points favorites, the total thirty five and
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a half. The Los Angeles Wildcats visit the Seattle Dragons.
Wildcats to your three point favorites the total forty five
and a half. And last but not least, the St.
Louis battle Hawks visit the Tampa Baby Vipers. Battle Hawks
are your three and a half point favorites the total
forty two and have five Alex Passano, when this has
been your sports grid news update, now back to the
fantasy bff's all right. There you have the update from Alex.
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All the conferences that are not playing basketball, which is
letterry conference that's off like basketball, The XFL is still going, Jen,
how are how are you doing anything? Listen? Obviously, you
you flew when when did you fly? So? I flew
in yester yesterday night. How are the Air Force plane? Airports?
And planes were amazing? First of all, I do fly often.
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I have in the past week been on a plane
and not had to share any row. Right, I mean,
nobody's near me. Um, the planes are extremely clean. You
can tell that everyone's being very polite. Everyone's covering their
mouth if they coffee. Don't hear coffee. You don't see sniffling.
You can tell it's all been bleached. You see them
cleaning it. So in a strange way, it felt safer
to fly this week than it has in the last
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three years. So that was fine. It was easy to
get a cabbag JFK. And then of course got in
last night and everything really started to really unravel. So yeah,
Jen in town for for tow Wars, in town for
the NFBC, in town for the g d D, and
we may go over three here, right. You know all
these drafts um are being potentially postponed canceled in some instances,
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and well we'll just lay it out there. We're supposed
to be in a draft together tonight. Um, it was
supposed to be at a bar on the upper eastat
side earlier this week, there was a vote to to
cancel that um and to just do it online. As
for an abundance of caution, I know some members of
the league are older. Some members of the league could
take care of their parents and their children. It wasn't
worth it in several members eyes to draft knowing what
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else is going on, and that was fine, So they
want to do it from home. Now. The MLB announced
that their postponing stre been training and more more than
likely postponing the start of MLB season at least a
couple of weeks. If it's not like they can't I mean,
I mean, because obviously this brings a lot of stuff
into question, and we can talk about strategies and I've
already thought about a lot of things and um, but
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they obviously can't start the season on time. It's impossible
at this point. If they're gonna suspend spring training, it's
not healthy for the players, it's not good for the
teams this period. So we had another week or so
of spring training left. And if we're stopping spring training,
let's say for another a month, right. The NBA is
kind of holding things out for thirty days. Everyone seems
to be holding out for thirty days. We'll kind of
re evaluate in mid April and see where we are.
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If the MLB does that, you're gonna need another two
to three weeks to kind of get everybody ramped back up.
And I'm not saying pictures can't throw, because they will.
I can't say hitters can't hit, because they will. But
it's not the same, and you're gonna need, like I said,
another couple of weeks. And that's why I've had in
my head that like, you're looking to me first, and
it's it's legit possibility. We don't start baseball until May first,
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so you're in a ton of leaves. This is what
you do if you're supposed to draft this weekend, which
you are. You supposed to draft tonight, which you are.
Would you want to postpone or cancel these drafts knowing
that there is so much up in the air. No,
not for me, because for me, first of all, I'm
I think it's going to be fun strategy to actually
figure out how this works out, which is part of
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the game of this um. And second, I'm I fear
that if we postpone it it just won't happen again
the same way. You know. So, as we said, sorry
for interrupting you, as we say, um, as we're talking
about this, can Rosenthalis just come out and said mL
V is suspending spring training games and they are delaying
the start of the regular season by at least two weeks.
So it was supposed to start and pull my calendar.
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You're supposed to start in Mar this year. It was
a Thursday, um, and they are now pushing the back
to at least April night. Okay, so we have two
more weeks of information at that point. Maybe, um. But
so if it's only two weeks, I'd still rather draft tonight.
I guess if it were two months, that might feel different.
MutS feels different. We're talking about two weeks. You're talking
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about like who starts for pictures. You're and I'm not
saying it will be two weeks. It's it's at least
two weeks. The goal is that we're hopefully as a country,
will have a better handle on what's going on by
the middle of April, and you can at least make
plans of some story knowing what's to come. This is
what we know now from MLB, So we have to
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just make sure that would like you make sure anything
you get, make sure anything. We don't know anything, but
I agree with you. I want to draft tonight. And
I said this on Twitter and Frank and I are
a team tonight, as everybody knows, we're team in life.
But he texted me as soon as I responded to
the email about postponing the draft, andanized it, what do
you mean, Like, why don't you want to postpone? Because
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he tweet and he had a huge tweet you have
to postpone draft? Like, no, you don't, And I tweeted
out like, there's more chaos. It makes it more fun.
There's more uncertainty, and I like it. There's a lot
of questions. It makes more fun. And somebody responded, like
you think this is fun. I'm like, oh, this sucks.
All of these sucks, but we're all gonna have to
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be home and we're gonna be quarantined. We're gonna have
to sit here and be on the air with no
sports to talk about. Yeah, I want a draft for fun,
and I bet there's gonna be a lot of draft
champions going on people at home with nothing else to do.
So they're gonna spend the money in draft, why I'm
going to do that, And I want to be able
to do that tonight with people that I enjoy hanging
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out with who I can't hang out with people I
enjoy being in a league, with a competitive league. And yeah,
you know, the cream always rising at the top. I'm
sure by the end of it ian con And because
she will be at the top anyway, like they always are.
There's a lot of uncertainty tonight, and that's what makes
it even more challenging and more fun. And that's why
I voted the draft. Yeah, I had the same same vote. Um,
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even though it's supposed to be a private boat, now,
you know, I replied, Also, here's the thing, so I
replied all by accident, like I didn't. I truly didn't
mean to reply all. I previously had emailed Steve when
he asked like specifically, but I just pressed reply and
I didn't realize it was replying all until I got
an email saying, how do you apply all? They're all
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gonna think I'm trying to hurry. Yeah, but um, I
think drafting tonight again, it's there's a lot of strategy
we can talk about this there. Now, all of a sudden,
some injured players come into play. What is the new
value of Justin Berlander? Now Justin Burlander, James Paxton, Clevinger,
Gean Carlo Stanton, Michael Conforto, Michael Conford, Oh right, Aaron June,
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Jillie Calhoun, all of these players who wait. Frankly, you're
sitting here and we've done it for months and you
have to be like, all right, well, Lena, worry about this.
Cole Hamil is another one. I don't want. I don't
want to pick this guy. He's gonna be out. Who
knows we'll be back? Well, now, I'm like, Mike Clemoners
won't give this couple weeks April anyway, Jays Paxton was
gonna get to mid May, Chris Sale, maybe even Chris
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sal Darry Sanchez name you're Yankee. They're on this list.
That's what we're talking about. I mean a lot more
of that to come here be f st hang out.
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Get off the grid. As we said, going to break
and now the press releases out for Major League Baseball,
they are canceling the rest of the spring training and
postponing the season beginning at least two weeks so right now,
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tentatively April nine. But of course this is all up
in the air. As we've heard a lot um from
our government over the past couple of days, things are
gonna get worse unfortunately before they get better. We've seen
around the world how that happens. Now there are places
that already getting better, thankfully. Yeah, China is already getting China,
South Korea's and it seemingly on the path getting better.
I don't really and honestly trust anything I'm trying to
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these days, but you know, I think that it has
to get really bad before it gets better. And hopefully
all these containments and more testing will help us um
get better sooner. Now, as Frank, this yesterday. I'm asking
you assuming the draft happens to night, and again, I
don't think it will, even though we know for sure
there's two votes to the yes. That's true. Constant email
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as well to me directly saying he voted yes, so
that's three. I think Rick Wilf will want to do it.
I really can't guess, but I think he and Glenn
will be in you like, shoot a text? Can you
shoot that text? I can text him. I know that
excellent telling to push for all right, so we only
need we need to eat, right, it's only need eat. Yeah,
so you know, hopefully get there. When was I three?
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We have three? I feel like nano is a secret?
No do so nando? I was like Dane Jane's like, oh,
I don't know, Like, dude, why not? It's more fun whatever.
I asked Frank this yesterday. Okay, how does your strategy
change doing a draft on online auction versus man? This
is such a great question. So this is one of
the things that I'm a little so I am actually
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doing a live draft tomorrow. I'm so grateful my home
league is still happening. It is an auction. Can I
be in that? Right? Do you want to come totally
just come might when it starts at eight am, but
it goes all day, like all day to like four pm.
Why is auction because there's a lot of drinking. There's
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bloody Mary bars, there's catered lunch. You know, I like
a thing. I have to work, but if I didn't
have to work, I'd be really interested in being there.
So yeah, and and so a lot of what I
do in auctions has to do with how the room
feels and how it's going, and like how you nominate
and what you hear in people's voices, the energy, and
so I don't know how it's going to be with
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an online draft. I've never done anything but a live draft,
and I'm a little concerned about how non emotional it's
going to be in a weird way. Um and that
so why So we've been in the g d D
for two years now, and the first the first draft,
like we had fun, got a lot of dirty looks
because we were having two fun. A lot of dirty looks.
A lot of people are like so annoying. I was like,
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all right, well with all the back um a little
bit last year where we're serious, but was still a
little cheerful this year, I I could reveal our strategy.
We did it. Now you're sitting across from so I'll
tell you exactly what we're gonna doing. So we're at
cold plans one whenever Ian convid, We're just gonna do
one dollar more, no matter what, no matter who the
player was, just you know. I mean these things were
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good strategy, right, So h that was one. The second
thing was as soon as we draft the player, we
look around the room and then we're just gonna be like, boom,
you're gonna have an easy I was bringing the easy
button with me to the draft, bringing the easy button. Dang,
the whole plan and other people are gonna love it
and be like these and guys I want to murder them,
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but not be okay, get in their head. Yeah, all good,
It's all the same. I mean, like I can tell
you you can always bid line up on Yankees. Sure
you've always been showing con Yeah, so like there's certain
people you know, and that's what makes it fun. And
probably because until you do that online. But like I
don't know if you've listened to it all to any
of the broadcast of like the n L to Out
or or the labor weekends or sorry not yeah, the
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labor and you could hear like all of a sudden,
there's a bidding war for freaking Hector Nerris why you know,
And that's something that when you're online, I don't think
that's going to happen. I agree, because you're not It's ah,
you're not in the room. You're not like I though,
you don't have adrenaline because I've done online auctions before
football admittedly, but I've done online auctions and you you
get there, but it's not like the same like intensity,
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you know what, and on all Honestly, my online drafts,
my online auctions, I've always been in the room with everybody.
So we were surrounding a table. So it's like you
and I right now, but like I see you see them,
I see see. That's fun. So that's why I even thought,
you know, if we could even draft in person, but
still you still can't do it in person. I mean,
if we draftment, I'm like hanging, you're more You're more
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than welcome to come over a pizza. That's literally all
you need. You're walking to my apartment. Beat yeah, but
I mean I think that is part of it. Because
you don't you don't know, and you can't feel the
energy of the room, right. And the other thing I
worried about is that one of the one of the
things I've always liked about it is I'm pretty good
to keeping a cat patalog in my head. I who's
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available and who hasn't been taken, and everyone's going to
be able to see it. It's kind of like like, oh, well,
Jonathan Scope still there and I hadn't valued at three
dollars anyway, so I'll just wait. And you can't like
give people that impression that they're running out, that their scarcity.
And the other thing, and the other thing for me
was and I know a lot of people use draft
software in league, especially some of these higher price players.
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Um they use draft software, but for us, like I don't,
and I just a guy goes that crossed, right, And
I don't have much especially on my computer, and I
just cross it off. But now I if you and
I are are in a bid together, I can see
your team, so you have too, if you have two
outfielders or going after each other. Oh, she doesn't need
this one that badly. Yeah, I probably could out been
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here here. I know that now I don't know that
when we're sitting there, like, I don't know how Jed
has our team. I'm way too focus on my own stuff.
But now being on online auction, I could really take
the time to look around, especially if there's a player
that is being been on that you know, I don't
have any interest in. Let's say Mike Child, Like, I
don't expect to go off for my jop, but he's
gonna be expensive player and there's gonna be a beting
war for him. Well join my traps nominated. I could
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sit there and be like, all right, so this person
is I'm competing with this person for this starting picture.
They've spent some money here. There's it's totally different. It
is totally different. I think it's totally different too. So
I don't know how this is going to go at all,
um if it goes at all. If it goes I'm
literally just refreshing my email waiting to be disappointed. So
I'm gonna put a request out to the fans. Should
they redo it as a UM live auction, maybe we
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can just like raise some funds, like a go fund
me to send Gen back to New York. That's not
a bad idea. Right, that's not about and I'll name
my team. I'll rename my team. Whoever the benefactor is
to send me back to New York if we do
the live auction. I got a live action again, because
even at Baseball Stars, they may do it with no
fans and then we're like, all right, so let's just
do it. Let's just do it. What I mean, that's
a whole other question, like what's going to be the difference?
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Does that make you upgrade astros if there's no fans.
We're gonna get to that. We're gonna get knew that
before before the before the coronavirus hit, Like, this is
why I wanted to have you, was to talk about
the astros. And we're going to get to the astros
because I have I'm really excited to talk to you
because you're a fan. Yeah, there's I want to hear
the fans perspective of it. So I'm interested in getting
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that and we will do that coming up in a
little bit here. But in regards to the difference in
strategy nominations, that's that has always been a question um
that I've struggled to answer in every sport. What is
the proper or any nomination strategy, and you have people
just that say and not incorrectly, all right, I just
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nominate players that I don't want because I want money
off the board. We'll use my TRT example. I don't
expect the draft Mike Trout tonight. I'll throw him out early.
Somebody you will spend forty plus dollars on him. Cool,
that person is fourty dollars less. I'm like, yes, that
is a valid strategy, but I feel like it doesn't
do anything, and I feel like I could use my
nomination wiser. That's the perfect word for it. Then there's
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a strategy where it's like, all right, you switch it up.
Sometimes you do high price players that you don't want,
other times players that you do want. Then there's players
that you nominate that all right, Well, at the end
of the tier, you already have a second baseman. You
nominate the last second basement of the tiers, so again
more money's off the board. Again, that doesn't feel right
to me, so I pose it to you. Jen, you
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have a nomination strategy, not really. I actually vary it.
And one thing I do like to do though, is
sometimes I like to casually drop in a very middle
player that I know I want at a time when
there's a bunch of high players going players going through,
Like what if I just go Now, this happened a
few years ago, but I remember I went Charlie Morton
seven dollars and it was just like crickets. The room
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was like, I don't I don't know yet if I
want Charlie Martinon. I was going to plug him in.
And I knew I wanted Charlie Morton, and I said Charlie,
and I got him for seven dollars. I remember that
I was two years ago. And Charlie Morton's a really
good example because tonight, Charlie Morton, if this draft happens tonight.
But this season, Charlie Morton is still a valuable picture, right,
but he's not a top five picture by any means.
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It's not necessarily a top ten picture. And where you
have Charlie Morton's going to vary. Of course, Charlie Morton
is like, let's say twenty picture, right, did you nominate
him super early? Before the Bibs, the Flowerties, the Strasburgs.
People are going to know what to do. We're gonna
be like I said, Charlie. Are they're gonna be like
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I'm not ready to leady to think about Charlie Morton, Like,
I'll I'll get that. Let me get my ace first
before I move on to Charlie Morton. And that is
a conversation that Frank and I have, like, wait, if
you're just nominated a guy like Charlie Morton early for
like twenty bucks, do you think we would everyone should
be like, I'm sure, sure that's what will happen. I
agree with you and I but I almost think that
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that's better in a live offline format. We're jenuors Like
all right, Charlie Morton twenty bucks. It was like, Charlie Morton,
bring me more nachos or something exactly over here. Now
if it's tonight, I gotta go to my wife and
me like I gotta beer over here, get it yourself. Yes,
that's what will happen there. Um what happened unce once
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you get married? Is that true? Now? It's like, so
now I get yelled at for being for being too bossy,
for how my bossy she goes. Let's just when just
this a few moments ago, you said, hey, we're gonna
watch Hunters on Amazon Prime. You weren't like, hey, you
want to watch like we're watching Hunters. I was like,
what we discussed, were watching that, but like, what if
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I wanted to watch something else right now? Are you
kidding me? Come on? This is marriage? You know there
is anyway tonight. I hope, I hope we dropped. I'm
just ready, I'm read ready, I'm ready. So Frank's watching this,
he's listening, and he goes, quote, no, Charlie Morton name drops.
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I was like, I did not drop the name, jet
drop the name. I was going to ask you right that.
I was going to ask you, how in you guys
are on Joe Musgrove this year? Question? I believe I'm
gonna I'm gonna exactly about bring up Sean. I was
going to reveal this right now because Sean's Frank's not here.
Who is our guest coming up Sean? It was supposed
to be yes, we were supposed to have Joe musw I.
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It was you know how much they loved Joe? Was
supposed to do you guys know how much they loved
Joe Musgrove? There was actually a chant about it a
couple of years ago. Oh, we had it. We I
told Sean there's a producer. Were used as we reached
out because we were je Usker was only fans. We
had more Twitter followers than Joe Musgrove did, and we're like, dude,
we love you. Man. I watched this debut game. We're like,
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come on, let us promote you. He didn't, And now
two years later, out of nowhere, I guess the corona,
I guess everything down. Two days ago, Shawn texted Man
of Nowhere was like, hey, I got you. Joe Musgrove, Okay,
I kind of like that Pirates pitching staff of possibilities.
I think they're sleepers. That's interesting. I'm a huge Brian
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for once. I love being on the same page person
across from me at this table, like it is so much.
It is such a fact TV though. Are we supposed
to fight? No, you know, it's great over the draft.
So I'm really like tweets that we've gotten throughout the
day and it's like Greggy Whale based as usual. Uh,
Frank has to deal with us on a daily basis.
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I feel bad for Frank. You know what, jen pH
d is proving to me that I am the logical
one here. We are sitting here, we are sitting here
during the break and we're just again talking about our
draft because that's where our heads are at right now,
and not that they're not where they should be with
the praying for hell but happiness of course. But we're
(25:57):
talking about how Wally cool I don't petrified saying the
wrong word here, Like how things will operate if we
draft tonight, how much more important FAB becomes, How this
is an X this is an experts league. People around
the industry want to know how experts are reacting to
drafting right now. That's right, and I think that that's
(26:18):
important because we can relay back like this is how
we drafted Mike Clevinger. Now this is how we valued
Michael and also I'm not even kidding, like I'm not
kidding doing so, and also the fab becomes So that's
something that you know, there's a lot of debate in
a lot of leagues, Like I know, everyone has a
different way that they use their waiver wire. Sometimes it's
(26:39):
just add drops, sometimes it's you know, snake priority. We
have a free agent acquisition budget. You have a hundred
dollars to spend there, and that's strategy in and of itself.
That's managing the team, and that's are not tuning in
right now to the wins. We will postpone our draft.
All of you have already paid tyfical decision, but I
(26:59):
think the right one. All things considers, especially how MLB
is officially announced, the link open day, when when the
season starts up, and how much it will be impacted
to try and past few days, not to mention the
uncertainty head we resumed there may be a possibility of
doing the auction live again with as. I think that
might be what he's kind of. I think I've asked
to try and make it happen. See everyone a person
in the camarady of guy families. It makes this group special.
I mission from day one piece. I am so deflated
(27:22):
right now. I am so deflated. I feel like this
has never happened. I actually my rankings now, I know,
I had a massive spreadsheet ready. I was really excited
to use it. I was so now like, I don't
have an auction to do for God knows when what
are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to
(27:43):
do when we're all stuck at home? Should we start
a food blog? I've been wanting to do that for
a long time. Yeah, I mean you got one coast
that got the other coast. I have this thing I'm
famous for now apparently that I don't like bananas. I
get a lot of heat for that. We can surely
like a whole thing about banana. Yeah, you try to
convince me to like bananas, but I feel like it's
not possible. You don't if you don't like him me
(28:04):
to like them. Yeah, I don't like bananas. It is
what it is. Yes, the draft postpone tonight demoralized the
rest world. I have all right, jas Post Let's move on. Okay.
The Huston Astros are cheating scumbacks. So you are a
you are a fan of said cheating scumbacks. Okay, what
(28:24):
is your action to to all of this? So obviously
it's been really difficult as a fan because you're you're
a fan. You have to stay a fan. You can't
just that's just kind of how it works, right, Um,
you're a fan of the franchise. It's been incredibly disappointing,
incredible disappointing. Some of my greatest memories, Like one of
my best memories ever in life was being at the
two thousand seventeen World Series with my father. You know,
(28:46):
like I've told this story before on this show, but
it's it was really hard. Um. But as far as
going forward, as far as fantasy is concerned, I think
that there's still a lot of value there and we
can talk about all of that. As far as being
a fan, I'm gonna not where my hat this year.
I feel like it. You know, do you think they
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do you think that any of the players should have
been suspended? Do I think any the players should have
been suspended. Um, probably, I mean this is where it
gets tricky. I think there are players that are on
other teams now I think they're are players. I think
there was more coming from above. I don't know that
they say it was player lead, but it's like pointing
(29:28):
fingers and where do you start that, where do you
stop that? I don't know what they should have done.
Probably there were a few players that should have been
to suspend a bit. Then where do you draw the line.
I think you probably have just spend the whole team
if you do it, Yeah, I think that well. I
think giving them all immunity you needed. You needed to
do that to talk. We know that, but when you
(29:49):
see what it's I understand that Alex Bregman and jose
L two Bay are the faces of this. It certainly
seems like Carlos Curray was very much involved as well.
I don't know how they can go off unscathed, right
A j hinge Um Jeff Luno. They get suspended and
ultimately fired, and the players our problem, even though you
(30:10):
are the ones that did it, Like fine, managers are responsible.
I get it. But if you're child, if you're a
you're talking at trouble at school. They did something wrong, Fine,
you yell at the parents, that's true. The child is
the one that hit it. And yes, you can sit
down the child and be like, if you tell me
(30:32):
the truth, nothing will happen to you. But then usually
something happens to them because they did something wrong, and
the Astros players did something very wrong. Now the coronavirus
rightfully so so out overshadow all of this. Obviously it is,
and when they come back, I think everybody will be
so excited to play baseball that we're not going to
(30:53):
be like, oh yeah, those cheating Astro's comebacks. So again,
it's it's good Stros in a way that this goes
away for a little bit, but it's a black art.
I was really wondering how you as an Astro fan,
not from my fantasy perspective, but you was an Astros
fan and a season like you said, were the greatest
memories of your life with your father. I'm not taking
(31:15):
that away because that's always gonna be there, but but
it and everyone keeps saying that, but that that's always
going to be there, and what, Yeah, it is, but
it's not the same. I'm sorry, it's not really if
you have any idea, like, especially now that when I'm
an analyst, the amount of interaction that I see um
and that I get from people and Dodgers fans and
(31:37):
Yankees fans and Astros, it's so nasty and so ugly
and so awful to look at, and you just feel like, Okay,
so I saw something that I truly believed with this
was amazing. I was at home in Houston. It seemed
everything seemed legit to me. It was going back and forth.
The lead change was great game. But now we don't
even think they should have won the World Series? Maybe,
(31:57):
like what how can I say? I saw this in
amazing World Series game where this happened, and then Bregman
hit the you know RB I winning RBI? Did he
did he have a trash? Can? You know? So it's
it does change it a bit because I can't even
happily tell people. And I went to the World Series
and post the picture of me my dad with the Astros,
like that's that's not a popular photos summer. Yeah, it's
(32:22):
I get it. So it almost seems like you're hurt
by this, right, Yeah, I think a lot of the
fans are hurt and I will tell you that you
should all know that a few Houston Astros fans that
are going around, you know, making shirts and say hate
us that I hope you know that is not most
of Houston. I think that's a few people that are
reacting because they've been you know, they feel like they
(32:44):
get But you do feel as a fan like you're
starting to get bullied to just because you're a fan.
And it's not your fault. You didn't know, you're not
you shouted. What are you supposed to do? Like leave
your team? Like what if it was the Yankees? Would
you really just be like and now I first swear
the yank forever? You can't. I mean, such an awkward situation.
It's an extremely awkward situation. Um, and there's no right
(33:08):
way to handle it. Do you blame the players? And
teams will come out and be like, yeah, we're going
to hit him. Yeah. I think that's absolutely inappropriate. I do.
Basically they're basically their responses. MLB is not doing anything
bad it, so we will. Yeah. I just I think
that's not the way adults handle things, probably right, I mean,
(33:29):
I mean, you know, they bond us, so we're going
to bomb them, Well they did this, and I mean,
you know, like it's almost like it's it's safer to
have a fist fight. They have a ball completely. Yeah,
if you want to go have a fist fight, go
out in the backyard and do it. Absolutely, but a
ball to the face like you could you could kill someone,
(33:51):
like actually kill someone, and you could be doing it
and you'd be thinking you were here, you'd be having
on national TV. So you need to think about what
you're doing too. I mean you saw it hap and
with like Albert Elmore and the foul ball and the
little girl. Look how that affected. Imagine that you do
that to a player and then that players done right
can happen? Can the whole world will see it and
(34:15):
they will, like we said, Corona is going to change
all of that. Baseball if you're just tuning in, MLB
has postponed the start of the league at least two
weeks to around April nine. There's start March twenty six.
Spring training has been canceled along with the NBA, along
with the NHL, along with the MLS. Alowa college basketball,
both men's and women's tournaments all done, all gone at
(34:37):
the moment. Unfortunately, you meaged the astrois from a fantasy perspective.
Is there value in these players? That's what I think.
But again, this is something that might change again if
you're drafting tonight, which we're not not. But maybe by
the time the drafts come around again, maybe people won't
be as prejudiced against them. Like you said, maybe there
(34:57):
won't be value anymore. Because right now, sometimes people can
get an al two Bay in the fifth sixth round.
Are you not going to take all two in the
fifth or sixth, or seventh or eighth round? Right? I
totally agree with that, But right in two weeks, maybe
people have forgotten about it. Maybe all this will have
overshadowed it and people be like, yeah, two guys been
good for a long time. He's a second round player.
You're not going to get a value anymore, And then
(35:18):
you have to really decide. I see the same way.
But Alex Pregnant. I know nobody wants Alice pregnant, but
he was. He was amazing, and he was an amazing prospect.
He qualifies at short and at third, so you have
positional flexibility. I mean, he's a why wouldn't you? But
but if you have to take him in the first round.
Maybe you don't want to. Yep, the Jack Curry is
(35:38):
speculating that it's a flute situation with Major League Baseball,
but as we forecast with the MLB season, might look
like they could delay the season by three weeks, sprinkling
seven double headers over the next five months, and then
end up with about a hundred and fifty games. I mean,
they have they talked to it all about just eliminating
the All Star Break. I haven't that I haven't. Nobody watches.
(36:00):
Nobody watches it, but like it does get more ratings
than like any other baseball teams. Nobody watches baseball in general.
The XFL will have an announcement at four pm today,
we'll get the latest on them. That's kind of in
twenty minutes from now, so I'm sure that news will
break beforehand. Um, but that was inevitable. UM. Vince McMahon's
w w E put their show at their performance center yesterday.
(36:23):
It looks like Smacked Out on Friday will also be
in Orlando at their Performance Center as well. So that's
another situation worth the monetary. Of course, you can't. There's
no way, is no arena, there's no city that you
can just bring in and the fifteen people anymore. New York,
for instance, doesn't want large gatheringes of five hundred as
you As you said, they closed Broadway and it wasn't
(36:45):
even like and that's a big blow to the city. Uh.
My wife works at the museum. They have to cross.
They don't have a choice. Really tough time for everybody
right now going on both New York City of course,
home and away. I was gonna break. When do we
come back? We'll talk more with Gen p a Chet
about our draft. It's not happening tonight. Uh, and a
(37:07):
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final if it's seen it's coast to coast with Farrell,
you know, he's gonna have a lot to say. He
came on the air yesterday and he was saying, how
uh he thought it was a lock that March Madness
would ultimately get canceled. He was right, uh. Him and
Jarry Smith we're talking about yesterday on the program and
yards I think it's and all it takes is one
and we saw that last night jan with Rudy Gobert
and him getting Corona changed everything for a lot of people.
(38:14):
As I keep saying, it's going to get worse before
it gets better, I mean I've seen projections that millions
of us will get it. We don't necessarily know that
we have it. Well, I mean that's the other thing
that we have to all keep in mind that the
coronavirus is a strand of virus that is part of
the blue from the Cold, and they've known about this
for forever, just like the rhino is part of it. Right.
This is just a new strand of it. So there's
(38:35):
certain things that we aren't resistant to yet. Over time,
we're going to build up immunity, just like anybody does
to anything anything. And they are obviously working really hard
right now to get some kind of a vaccine and
all of that as well. So we know eventually we're
going to be able to stop this. I mean, I
can't imagine that we can't. But if we do these
precautions now, I think they're hoping that we can just
(38:57):
stop it from escalating. And so it's just much easier
to contain knowing what we do know. Um, but yeah,
once it we we may all have it. I mean
I watched the video from Tom Hanks's son, and you
know Tom Hanks, of course not he had and he's like,
you know, they're not really that sick. So just because
you have it doesn't mean you're going to be in
a terrible state. It just means we have to to
keep an eye on it and keep you from transferring
(39:18):
it from other people. And that's what we just don't
know because we don't have the tests. Absolutely they all
have it already. That's the thing. We we we may
have it. We again, like Rudy Gobert is ready to
play basketball last night, right, he was, he felt fine,
He's ready to play, Yeah, and he had the coronavirus.
Like that's how you know that it is could be
(39:39):
within any of us, Like I feel a hundred percent fine.
You seem ad percent fine right like we may have it.
We have had it for a few days now, without
the fever, without the cause. Yeah, and of course we
we just have no idea. Obviously, are um a whole
the whole other story. Obviously, UM get in some players
now that we're not drafting at each other, let's just talk,
(40:01):
just talk about some players. I want to. He's always
gonna connected. A former astro Okay, you're growing up, was
Craig Bigio. His son, Cavin Bigio now plays baseball for
the Blue Jays, who we were just talking about. Read
this spring and the Blue Jays in the White Sox,
two teams everyone's looking at like they're fun. They're fun.
Cavin Bigio has kind of been one of my guys
(40:22):
on Brian Reynolds Safari Planet. Those two guys you get
that joke were now come on, like frank doesn't get
it because Franklin doesn't get pop culture. Like I feel
like you could have Brian Reynolds Safari Planet. Nothing you
don't watch Saturday Night Live, Sorry, Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan
shoun do a sketch well, Brian Fellow Safari Planet, and
(40:44):
it was like it was one of his more known sketches,
and he basically played a child that wasn't all there
and he would just see these animals hosting, and he
hosted the show called Safari Planet and Brian Fellows and
it's Brian Reynolds Fari. It's okay. I had a whole
thing that I did about Alex d of madisone all
football season. Some people got that. Some people know Hamilton's,
(41:06):
but yeah, speaking Broadway, because anything right now. So I
saw Hamilton for the second time last month. I bought
my wife tickets for her birthday to see Hamilton's on
my birthday. It was like a really earliant idea. I
mean that she agreed, Yeah she did. She didn't feel
like that's like when you like buy a woman lingerie
for her birthday. Sounds good. Thanks Hunting wasn't all I
(41:30):
got out of it was I just got to people
for dinner. I was gonna be a deal. So we
saw it and I liked it like even better the
second time I did too. It was I did to
the second time I saw because it's a lot easier
to follow. Like the first time, you're just like, what
my mind blown total it's going on. There's so many words,
you can't understand all the words exactly. The second time
is better. I watched the second time, I'm like, not
only I understand it way more like the second act,
(41:52):
which I always remember, is being like slower. All the
fun all the fun songs are like the first act
and the second act. Alright, it's a little slower, little
bit boring. It was amazing, brilliant. I know I have
the same reaction. I'm also obsessed with Tomorrow Green, who
played George Washington for me. He is Oh my god,
he's better than the original. I really believe that you
(42:12):
talk about like George Washington, you talk about presents, right,
this guy at a presence, and I wanted to give
him when he does um um, what's this? What's the
famous short Washington song? And second act one last time?
You know he does one last time. It was just
his swan song in the show. I wanted to give
m a standing relation in the middle of the show.
(42:36):
It was amazing act him fan mail. By the way,
do you know that I play in my Big League?
I played Tomorrow because I got a piece of fan
mail from someone that saw me on stage, and now
we're partners and I playing this money lot, so always
send fans you never know where it's gonna lead. So
we looked him because we were so impressed. He like
does like just like what he says. It seems like
he's like he's not like lit Manuel Morander, right, he's
(42:57):
like a normal Broadway guy, like just people. Yeah, exactly
as you were saying. They're all kind of that they
have off work. Um. So I was like, this guy
is amazing. I will I will follow him in whatever
show he does next. I will see this guy. That's
how impressed I was. It was it should be. It
was awesome. I'm not saying like every character is better
than the first time I saw it, Like there are
(43:17):
some actors and don't I want name it? Like I
was like, I really like the better the first time,
but it was still really cool. I really enjoyed that.
Did you see lin Manuel you did? I remember this?
We talked about this and I was so angrysh And
then I saw another guy that was honestly probably I
saw Farren's son do it. Oh that's cool. Yeah, his
mother's an opera teacher. I did not know that talented family.
(43:39):
I saw Taryn kill Him as King George. That so
Taryn Killum was better than the person that played King
George for me. And I also decided like Tary killam
better than Jonathan Grolf playing the role. Really listen, I
didn't see him, but do you know who I saw?
Guy that was on Smash? Oh that Christian Moral Smash.
(44:00):
The other one that was about Broadway was Smash. Yeah,
you saw Brian Dorcy James do it. James was amazing.
He was the original. He was amazing. He came back
to do it when I saw it, and he was amazing, awesome.
Never left so hard, so halted. This is what happened. Sorry,
guys that were supposed to be talking about sports, but hey,
(44:20):
there never Broadway, Fantasy Broadway or something. Are you are
you gonna see six? You know what six is? No,
I'm not. I mean I'm not here long enought Yeah,
that communion. Yeah, if I come back. So same Six
is about Henry the Eighth Six Wives, and it's like
eight minutes long. It's like a pop musical. That's awesome.
(44:42):
I had to take it to the Sunday and now
I cannot. They'll they'll Bill do Hey, don't think so
I don't agree. Come on, are you so? Am I in? Yes,
I'm mildly in. I'm not as crazy as some people
are about him. Now here's the thing. I think that
Kevin Biggio is more valuable in obi P League avertly,
and that's one thing to be aware of. I do
(45:03):
think he'll run. His dad obviously, is great hitter three
you know, three thousand hits, you know, Hall of fame. Um,
but I'm not a d I prefer like the sets better,
no doubt better. Um but yeah, no, I like Kevin
Bijo and all those baby jays are having a great spring.
They are there. You're getting excited. You've seen Ladimir Guerrero's
(45:26):
praised dip and then go back, Um, who doesn't want
to have a share of vlad Junior. You gotta at
least right, at least in one league, right, you can
really go big. I mean, I'm not convinced it's not
enough tour. I'm putting him everywhere, but you can have
at least one share. I think, Um, you want, we
want somebody, right even as like like all right, I
could deal with that. Yeah, I love Lord of Scary.
(45:47):
Actually I've actually rostered him for like free. The last
couple of years he's always paid off. Sure, and maybe
this year's even Betterly he's betting third, I think in
this lineup roster resources. So it's like, all right, sure,
why not? And then I mentioned, um, imagine my man
Brian Reynolds. You said you like Brian Reynolds. Why's that?
Because he does everything it doesn't cost you anything. And
he's like a mini Michael Brantly. Michael Brantly, who would
(46:10):
not agree more with you? See this this right here?
How about that maybe we should have a team to
maybe we agree with problem. Yeah, I'm totally with you
with Brian Reynolds. He's a mini Michael Brentley, gives you a
a good average, you could get you fifteen fifteen. Absolutely,
And then like you spent nothing for him, he's your
boring player. I am a big proponent of having a
few boring players on your team with your stars. So
(46:31):
the problem with Frankie is that he likes all boring players,
Like he's obsessed old guys. Right, So I mentioned like
Charlie Morton before, and there's like an old guy like
Frank's pretty interested in them. He's like he's like the
all Joey Evado, No, not that old, not like Joey
Vado and not like Meg Cabraro. It isn't like he
likes Justinton Oh, I love Justin upton He's a sleeper
(46:53):
pick for me. He likes Justin, he likes Andrew McCutcheon.
Any cutching, I'm not so sure about anymore. Besides, he
should only ever be a pirate with dreads. I don't
agree on the dreads um, but like the cutcheon, he's
another player of the drafted tonight, like he could be
back around me. He could be, he could be, but
he's not one I'm pursuing. Just not that I like
because he's always been a source of thirty home runs.
(47:14):
I mean, he's never been injured until last year that
was really an outlier. So I'm all about upton Um.
But now that we've said that a hundred times, and
you're gonna have two or three more weeks to hear
that before the season starts, he probably won't be cheap anymore.
I mean, that's the other thing that's all going to change.
And being in that lineup where you kind of look
at it like, wait, there's better than I realized. This
this line up. So, um, that's that's what the Angels
(47:37):
with Mike Trout I wis showing Tony at h And
that's another one shows honey that Arm could be working
a whole lot better. First could interesting? I think. I
think that's another interesting one. So a whole lot going
on there, um with what's going to change in May?
All right, we have two minutes left, Jen, Where can
(47:58):
people hear you? Watch you listen? Oh? Yeah, you can
check out my work at Fantasy Alarm dot com. I'm
also on Serious XM Radio regularly on Friday nights for
Alarm After Hours and then um I'm supposed to be
if you guys are listening to the Town broadcast this
weekend broadcasting the Talent Mixed Auction this Saturday from three
to eight pm Eastern Time. We'll see if that still
goes forward. I hope it does. But otherwise you can
find me on Serious XM or at Fantasy Alarm com.
(48:21):
I'm writing for the Jim Bowden draft. Guys. There you go.
And I've seen you tweet lot of stuff with Jim
Bowden and he's perspective on Yeah, we've done a few
radio shows together and he's It's great because we get
a little bit of inside information that you're not getting.
So he'll be like, oh, I just texted you know,
Dave Martinez or whatever you know, and you're like, oh,
that's the new closer. I know something somebody else doesn't, right,
(48:45):
So we get that g M connection that a lot
of people don't. So that is the one advantage of
the Jim Bowden U. That's one of many you can
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if you listening, there you go, Jenny. We really appreciate
you coming in and hanging out. So I'm also happy
(49:05):
you came in. I'ms happy Frank was in here to
experience it either. Maybe maybe the show so much better,
so it's great. Hopefully I can see Frank next time.
Well hopefully you know you'll be back when we do
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I am Greg Sauceman. She is a better looking Frank
staff all. What's going on? Nph your bay? I am back.
(01:03):
It's so nice to be bad. It's it used to
be like more than once a year, and now it's
once a year. It's about once a year. How are you?
I'm so good. Don't live in New York anymore. And
don't live in New York anymore. I live in l A.
I do appreciate that you've got this nice six long
table for us. You can be at a safe distance
about sports. Yeah, unfortunately, there's not much sports to talk about,
(01:23):
of course, U because everybody knows that is watching, that
is listening, that is hanging out with us, there are
no sports. UM Baseball, Great Fruit LEA games I've been
canceled as of tomorrow. All spring training. I'm sure it
has been shut down as of tomorrow. UM, there's no
doubt they will push Major League Baseball the opening day
on March back. UM, the a is, the conference tournaments
(01:46):
have all been canceled. March man Is will be postponed.
I'm quite positive of that. There's no NBA, there's no NHL.
There is still XFL for now. UM we have golf.
I see that in the background over there. I think
there might be nasks are there for now, although I
heard the NASCAR it's going to make an announcement. We'll
see on that. There's no Broadway. There's no Broadway. I
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take us to a Broadway show on Sunday. Was very
excited about it, and I don't get excited for that anymore. UM,
you know we It's funny because it almost took sports
for everyone to kind of treat this very as serious
as it should be. Able to talk all talk baseball
and stuff coming up with this hour, but I think
sports for us to kind of realize like how serious
(02:27):
it is, right and even me personally speaking, because business
as usual For me, I'm doing my normal thing. I
can't anymore because I don't have the n b A,
I don't have Major League Baseball, I don't have the
NHL MLS. I ain't gonna talk about And for all
of us in New York and all of us around
the country, it was no longer because this as usual.
(02:47):
We will do everything we can um get through this together,
and we will talk about sports, will make light of things.
We'll talk about big small, we'll talk about rafting right now,
but we'll do all of that over the next hour.
Jenn and I are here. I said, let her look
a frank person. That's why she's huge today in frank
not here right now. Your news update. Hi am Alex
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Massana with your sports grid news update here on the
Fantasy bf's it is officially COVID nineteen a k A coronavirus.
Watch the world of sports takes a beating. As you
can see. Here are the official statements. The NHL has
suspended its season. The Major League Baseball is expected to
suspend baseball operations in definitely. The following conferences have canceled
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their men's basketball tournaments. The sec A, CEC, Big Ten,
Big twelve, Pack twelve. You get the point. All conferences
have been canceled for March Madness. However, we are still
awaiting selections. Sunday is still on and planned for Sunday
as of now. However, the one league not being affected
too much by the coronavirus is the NFL. They said
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today that they have quote no plans to move the
start of the league year as of yet. The league, however,
did canceled t annual meeting that was scheduled to be
held in Florida from March twenty nine to April one.
Several teams have also restricted travel for their coaches and
scouts because of the virus. The following teams, Washington Redskins,
New York Chefs, Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins, and the Tampa
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Bay Buccaneers were among the teams to pull personnel off
the road and restrict travel. Also, the Philadelphia Eagles won't
send their coaches to the upcoming Para Days year is
scheduled to begin at four pm Eastern on Wednesday, March eighteen.
Teams must use their franchise tag or transition TEGs by
eleven fifty nine Eastern Standard time Monday, and agents are
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pending for free agents to be permitted to talk to
other teams as well. Well, you said it, Greg, there's
not many sports to talk about the preview, but there
is XFL this weekend, so let's give you some lines.
The Houston Roughnecks visit the New York Guardians. Roughnecks are
your six and a half point favorites, the total forty
six and a half. The Dallas Renegades visit the DC Defenders.
Defenders your four points favorites, the total thirty five and
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a half. The Los Angeles Wildcats visit the Seattle Dragons.
Wildcats to your three point favorites the total forty five
and a half. And last but not least, the St.
Louis battle Hawks visit the Tampa Baby Vipers. Battle Hawks
are your three and a half point favorites the total
forty two and have five Alex Passano, when this has
been your sports grid news update, now back to the
fantasy bff's all right. There you have the update from Alex.
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All the conferences that are not playing basketball, which is
letterry conference that's off like basketball, The XFL is still going, Jen,
how are how are you doing anything? Listen? Obviously, you
you flew when when did you fly? So? I flew
in yester yesterday night. How are the Air Force plane? Airports?
And planes were amazing? First of all, I do fly often.
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I have in the past week been on a plane
and not had to share any row. Right, I mean,
nobody's near me. Um, the planes are extremely clean. You
can tell that everyone's being very polite. Everyone's covering their
mouth if they coffee. Don't hear coffee. You don't see sniffling.
You can tell it's all been bleached. You see them
cleaning it. So in a strange way, it felt safer
to fly this week than it has in the last
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three years. So that was fine. It was easy to
get a cabbag JFK. And then of course got in
last night and everything really started to really unravel. So yeah,
Jen in town for for tow Wars, in town for
the NFBC, in town for the g d D, and
we may go over three here, right. You know all
these drafts um are being potentially postponed canceled in some instances,
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and well we'll just lay it out there. We're supposed
to be in a draft together tonight. Um, it was
supposed to be at a bar on the upper eastat
side earlier this week, there was a vote to to
cancel that um and to just do it online. As
for an abundance of caution, I know some members of
the league are older. Some members of the league could
take care of their parents and their children. It wasn't
worth it in several members eyes to draft knowing what
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else is going on, and that was fine, So they
want to do it from home. Now. The MLB announced
that their postponing stre been training and more more than
likely postponing the start of MLB season at least a
couple of weeks. If it's not like they can't I mean,
I mean, because obviously this brings a lot of stuff
into question, and we can talk about strategies and I've
already thought about a lot of things and um, but
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they obviously can't start the season on time. It's impossible
at this point. If they're gonna suspend spring training, it's
not healthy for the players, it's not good for the
teams this period. So we had another week or so
of spring training left. And if we're stopping spring training,
let's say for another a month, right. The NBA is
kind of holding things out for thirty days. Everyone seems
to be holding out for thirty days. We'll kind of
re evaluate in mid April and see where we are.
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If the MLB does that, you're gonna need another two
to three weeks to kind of get everybody ramped back up.
And I'm not saying pictures can't throw, because they will.
I can't say hitters can't hit, because they will. But
it's not the same, and you're gonna need, like I said,
another couple of weeks. And that's why I've had in
my head that like, you're looking to me first, and
it's it's legit possibility. We don't start baseball until May first,
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so you're in a ton of leaves. This is what
you do if you're supposed to draft this weekend, which
you are. You supposed to draft tonight, which you are.
Would you want to postpone or cancel these drafts knowing
that there is so much up in the air. No,
not for me, because for me, first of all, I'm
I think it's going to be fun strategy to actually
figure out how this works out, which is part of
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the game of this um. And second, I'm I fear
that if we postpone it it just won't happen again
the same way. You know. So, as we said, sorry
for interrupting you, as we say, um, as we're talking
about this, can Rosenthalis just come out and said mL
V is suspending spring training games and they are delaying
the start of the regular season by at least two weeks.
So it was supposed to start and pull my calendar.
(08:41):
You're supposed to start in Mar this year. It was
a Thursday, um, and they are now pushing the back
to at least April night. Okay, so we have two
more weeks of information at that point. Maybe, um. But
so if it's only two weeks, I'd still rather draft tonight.
I guess if it were two months, that might feel different.
MutS feels different. We're talking about two weeks. You're talking
(09:02):
about like who starts for pictures. You're and I'm not
saying it will be two weeks. It's it's at least
two weeks. The goal is that we're hopefully as a country,
will have a better handle on what's going on by
the middle of April, and you can at least make
plans of some story knowing what's to come. This is
what we know now from MLB, So we have to
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just make sure that would like you make sure anything
you get, make sure anything. We don't know anything, but
I agree with you. I want to draft tonight. And
I said this on Twitter and Frank and I are
a team tonight, as everybody knows, we're team in life.
But he texted me as soon as I responded to
the email about postponing the draft, andanized it, what do
you mean, Like, why don't you want to postpone? Because
(09:44):
he tweet and he had a huge tweet you have
to postpone draft? Like, no, you don't, And I tweeted
out like, there's more chaos. It makes it more fun.
There's more uncertainty, and I like it. There's a lot
of questions. It makes more fun. And somebody responded, like
you think this is fun. I'm like, oh, this sucks.
All of these sucks, but we're all gonna have to
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be home and we're gonna be quarantined. We're gonna have
to sit here and be on the air with no
sports to talk about. Yeah, I want a draft for fun,
and I bet there's gonna be a lot of draft
champions going on people at home with nothing else to do.
So they're gonna spend the money in draft, why I'm
going to do that, And I want to be able
to do that tonight with people that I enjoy hanging
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out with who I can't hang out with people I
enjoy being in a league, with a competitive league. And yeah,
you know, the cream always rising at the top. I'm
sure by the end of it ian con And because
she will be at the top anyway, like they always are.
There's a lot of uncertainty tonight, and that's what makes
it even more challenging and more fun. And that's why
I voted the draft. Yeah, I had the same same vote. Um,
(10:45):
even though it's supposed to be a private boat, now,
you know, I replied, Also, here's the thing, so I
replied all by accident, like I didn't. I truly didn't
mean to reply all. I previously had emailed Steve when
he asked like specifically, but I just pressed reply and
I didn't realize it was replying all until I got
an email saying, how do you apply all? They're all
(11:05):
gonna think I'm trying to hurry. Yeah, but um, I
think drafting tonight again, it's there's a lot of strategy
we can talk about this there. Now, all of a sudden,
some injured players come into play. What is the new
value of Justin Berlander? Now Justin Burlander, James Paxton, Clevinger,
Gean Carlo Stanton, Michael Conforto, Michael Conford, Oh right, Aaron June,
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Jillie Calhoun, all of these players who wait. Frankly, you're
sitting here and we've done it for months and you
have to be like, all right, well, Lena, worry about this.
Cole Hamil is another one. I don't want. I don't
want to pick this guy. He's gonna be out. Who
knows we'll be back? Well, now, I'm like, Mike Clemoners
won't give this couple weeks April anyway, Jays Paxton was
gonna get to mid May, Chris Sale, maybe even Chris
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sal Darry Sanchez name you're Yankee. They're on this list.
That's what we're talking about. I mean a lot more
of that to come here be f st hang out.
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Get off the grid. As we said, going to break
and now the press releases out for Major League Baseball,
they are canceling the rest of the spring training and
postponing the season beginning at least two weeks so right now,
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tentatively April nine. But of course this is all up
in the air. As we've heard a lot um from
our government over the past couple of days, things are
gonna get worse unfortunately before they get better. We've seen
around the world how that happens. Now there are places
that already getting better, thankfully. Yeah, China is already getting China,
South Korea's and it seemingly on the path getting better.
I don't really and honestly trust anything I'm trying to
(13:14):
these days, but you know, I think that it has
to get really bad before it gets better. And hopefully
all these containments and more testing will help us um
get better sooner. Now, as Frank, this yesterday. I'm asking
you assuming the draft happens to night, and again, I
don't think it will, even though we know for sure
there's two votes to the yes. That's true. Constant email
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as well to me directly saying he voted yes, so
that's three. I think Rick Wilf will want to do it.
I really can't guess, but I think he and Glenn
will be in you like, shoot a text? Can you
shoot that text? I can text him. I know that
excellent telling to push for all right, so we only
need we need to eat, right, it's only need eat. Yeah,
so you know, hopefully get there. When was I three?
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We have three? I feel like nano is a secret?
No do so nando? I was like Dane Jane's like, oh,
I don't know, Like, dude, why not? It's more fun whatever.
I asked Frank this yesterday. Okay, how does your strategy
change doing a draft on online auction versus man? This
is such a great question. So this is one of
the things that I'm a little so I am actually
(14:23):
doing a live draft tomorrow. I'm so grateful my home
league is still happening. It is an auction. Can I
be in that? Right? Do you want to come totally
just come might when it starts at eight am, but
it goes all day, like all day to like four pm.
Why is auction because there's a lot of drinking. There's
(14:45):
bloody Mary bars, there's catered lunch. You know, I like
a thing. I have to work, but if I didn't
have to work, I'd be really interested in being there.
So yeah, and and so a lot of what I
do in auctions has to do with how the room
feels and how it's going, and like how you nominate
and what you hear in people's voices, the energy, and
so I don't know how it's going to be with
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an online draft. I've never done anything but a live draft,
and I'm a little concerned about how non emotional it's
going to be in a weird way. Um and that
so why So we've been in the g d D
for two years now, and the first the first draft,
like we had fun, got a lot of dirty looks
because we were having two fun. A lot of dirty looks.
A lot of people are like so annoying. I was like,
(15:26):
all right, well with all the back um a little
bit last year where we're serious, but was still a
little cheerful this year, I I could reveal our strategy.
We did it. Now you're sitting across from so I'll
tell you exactly what we're gonna doing. So we're at
cold plans one whenever Ian convid, We're just gonna do
one dollar more, no matter what, no matter who the
player was, just you know. I mean these things were
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good strategy, right, So h that was one. The second
thing was as soon as we draft the player, we
look around the room and then we're just gonna be like, boom,
you're gonna have an easy I was bringing the easy
button with me to the draft, bringing the easy button. Dang,
the whole plan and other people are gonna love it
and be like these and guys I want to murder them,
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but not be okay, get in their head. Yeah, all good,
It's all the same. I mean, like I can tell
you you can always bid line up on Yankees. Sure
you've always been showing con Yeah, so like there's certain
people you know, and that's what makes it fun. And
probably because until you do that online. But like I
don't know if you've listened to it all to any
of the broadcast of like the n L to Out
or or the labor weekends or sorry not yeah, the
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labor and you could hear like all of a sudden,
there's a bidding war for freaking Hector Nerris why you know,
And that's something that when you're online, I don't think
that's going to happen. I agree, because you're not It's ah,
you're not in the room. You're not like I though,
you don't have adrenaline because I've done online auctions before
football admittedly, but I've done online auctions and you you
get there, but it's not like the same like intensity,
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you know what, and on all Honestly, my online drafts,
my online auctions, I've always been in the room with everybody.
So we were surrounding a table. So it's like you
and I right now, but like I see you see them,
I see see. That's fun. So that's why I even thought,
you know, if we could even draft in person, but
still you still can't do it in person. I mean,
if we draftment, I'm like hanging, you're more You're more
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than welcome to come over a pizza. That's literally all
you need. You're walking to my apartment. Beat yeah, but
I mean I think that is part of it. Because
you don't you don't know, and you can't feel the
energy of the room, right. And the other thing I
worried about is that one of the one of the
things I've always liked about it is I'm pretty good
to keeping a cat patalog in my head. I who's
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available and who hasn't been taken, and everyone's going to
be able to see it. It's kind of like like, oh, well,
Jonathan Scope still there and I hadn't valued at three
dollars anyway, so I'll just wait. And you can't like
give people that impression that they're running out, that their scarcity.
And the other thing, and the other thing for me
was and I know a lot of people use draft
software in league, especially some of these higher price players.
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Um they use draft software, but for us, like I don't,
and I just a guy goes that crossed, right, And
I don't have much especially on my computer, and I
just cross it off. But now I if you and
I are are in a bid together, I can see
your team, so you have too, if you have two
outfielders or going after each other. Oh, she doesn't need
this one that badly. Yeah, I probably could out been
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here here. I know that now I don't know that
when we're sitting there, like, I don't know how Jed
has our team. I'm way too focus on my own stuff.
But now being on online auction, I could really take
the time to look around, especially if there's a player
that is being been on that you know, I don't
have any interest in. Let's say Mike Child, Like, I
don't expect to go off for my jop, but he's
gonna be expensive player and there's gonna be a beting
war for him. Well join my traps nominated. I could
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sit there and be like, all right, so this person
is I'm competing with this person for this starting picture.
They've spent some money here. There's it's totally different. It
is totally different. I think it's totally different too. So
I don't know how this is going to go at all,
um if it goes at all. If it goes I'm
literally just refreshing my email waiting to be disappointed. So
I'm gonna put a request out to the fans. Should
they redo it as a UM live auction, maybe we
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can just like raise some funds, like a go fund
me to send Gen back to New York. That's not
a bad idea. Right, that's not about and I'll name
my team. I'll rename my team. Whoever the benefactor is
to send me back to New York if we do
the live auction. I got a live action again, because
even at Baseball Stars, they may do it with no
fans and then we're like, all right, so let's just
do it. Let's just do it. What I mean, that's
a whole other question, like what's going to be the difference?
(19:24):
Does that make you upgrade astros if there's no fans.
We're gonna get to that. We're gonna get knew that
before before the before the coronavirus hit, Like, this is
why I wanted to have you, was to talk about
the astros. And we're going to get to the astros
because I have I'm really excited to talk to you
because you're a fan. Yeah, there's I want to hear
the fans perspective of it. So I'm interested in getting
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that and we will do that coming up in a
little bit here. But in regards to the difference in
strategy nominations, that's that has always been a question um
that I've struggled to answer in every sport. What is
the proper or any nomination strategy, and you have people
just that say and not incorrectly, all right, I just
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nominate players that I don't want because I want money
off the board. We'll use my TRT example. I don't
expect the draft Mike Trout tonight. I'll throw him out early.
Somebody you will spend forty plus dollars on him. Cool,
that person is fourty dollars less. I'm like, yes, that
is a valid strategy, but I feel like it doesn't
do anything, and I feel like I could use my
nomination wiser. That's the perfect word for it. Then there's
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a strategy where it's like, all right, you switch it up.
Sometimes you do high price players that you don't want,
other times players that you do want. Then there's players
that you nominate that all right, Well, at the end
of the tier, you already have a second baseman. You
nominate the last second basement of the tiers, so again
more money's off the board. Again, that doesn't feel right
to me, so I pose it to you. Jen, you
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have a nomination strategy, not really. I actually vary it.
And one thing I do like to do though, is
sometimes I like to casually drop in a very middle
player that I know I want at a time when
there's a bunch of high players going players going through,
Like what if I just go Now, this happened a
few years ago, but I remember I went Charlie Morton
seven dollars and it was just like crickets. The room
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was like, I don't I don't know yet if I
want Charlie Martinon. I was going to plug him in.
And I knew I wanted Charlie Morton, and I said Charlie,
and I got him for seven dollars. I remember that
I was two years ago. And Charlie Morton's a really
good example because tonight, Charlie Morton, if this draft happens tonight.
But this season, Charlie Morton is still a valuable picture, right,
but he's not a top five picture by any means.
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It's not necessarily a top ten picture. And where you
have Charlie Morton's going to vary. Of course, Charlie Morton
is like, let's say twenty picture, right, did you nominate
him super early? Before the Bibs, the Flowerties, the Strasburgs.
People are going to know what to do. We're gonna
be like I said, Charlie. Are they're gonna be like
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I'm not ready to leady to think about Charlie Morton, Like,
I'll I'll get that. Let me get my ace first
before I move on to Charlie Morton. And that is
a conversation that Frank and I have, like, wait, if
you're just nominated a guy like Charlie Morton early for
like twenty bucks, do you think we would everyone should
be like, I'm sure, sure that's what will happen. I
agree with you and I but I almost think that
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that's better in a live offline format. We're jenuors Like
all right, Charlie Morton twenty bucks. It was like, Charlie Morton,
bring me more nachos or something exactly over here. Now
if it's tonight, I gotta go to my wife and
me like I gotta beer over here, get it yourself. Yes,
that's what will happen there. Um what happened unce once
(22:38):
you get married? Is that true? Now? It's like, so
now I get yelled at for being for being too bossy,
for how my bossy she goes. Let's just when just
this a few moments ago, you said, hey, we're gonna
watch Hunters on Amazon Prime. You weren't like, hey, you
want to watch like we're watching Hunters. I was like,
what we discussed, were watching that, but like, what if
(22:59):
I wanted to watch something else right now? Are you
kidding me? Come on? This is marriage? You know there
is anyway tonight. I hope, I hope we dropped. I'm
just ready, I'm read ready, I'm ready. So Frank's watching this,
he's listening, and he goes, quote, no, Charlie Morton name drops.
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I was like, I did not drop the name, jet
drop the name. I was going to ask you right that.
I was going to ask you, how in you guys
are on Joe Musgrove this year? Question? I believe I'm
gonna I'm gonna exactly about bring up Sean. I was
going to reveal this right now because Sean's Frank's not here.
Who is our guest coming up Sean? It was supposed
to be yes, we were supposed to have Joe musw I.
(23:46):
It was you know how much they loved Joe? Was
supposed to do you guys know how much they loved
Joe Musgrove? There was actually a chant about it a
couple of years ago. Oh, we had it. We I
told Sean there's a producer. Were used as we reached
out because we were je Usker was only fans. We
had more Twitter followers than Joe Musgrove did, and we're like, dude,
we love you. Man. I watched this debut game. We're like,
(24:08):
come on, let us promote you. He didn't, And now
two years later, out of nowhere, I guess the corona,
I guess everything down. Two days ago, Shawn texted Man
of Nowhere was like, hey, I got you. Joe Musgrove, Okay,
I kind of like that Pirates pitching staff of possibilities.
I think they're sleepers. That's interesting. I'm a huge Brian
(24:30):
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for once. I love being on the same page person
across from me at this table, like it is so much.
It is such a fact TV though. Are we supposed
to fight? No, you know, it's great over the draft.
So I'm really like tweets that we've gotten throughout the
day and it's like Greggy Whale based as usual. Uh,
Frank has to deal with us on a daily basis.
(25:37):
I feel bad for Frank. You know what, jen pH
d is proving to me that I am the logical
one here. We are sitting here, we are sitting here
during the break and we're just again talking about our
draft because that's where our heads are at right now,
and not that they're not where they should be with
the praying for hell but happiness of course. But we're
(25:57):
talking about how Wally cool I don't petrified saying the
wrong word here, Like how things will operate if we
draft tonight, how much more important FAB becomes, How this
is an X this is an experts league. People around
the industry want to know how experts are reacting to
drafting right now. That's right, and I think that that's
(26:18):
important because we can relay back like this is how
we drafted Mike Clevinger. Now this is how we valued
Michael and also I'm not even kidding, like I'm not
kidding doing so, and also the fab becomes So that's
something that you know, there's a lot of debate in
a lot of leagues, Like I know, everyone has a
different way that they use their waiver wire. Sometimes it's
(26:39):
just add drops, sometimes it's you know, snake priority. We
have a free agent acquisition budget. You have a hundred
dollars to spend there, and that's strategy in and of itself.
That's managing the team, and that's are not tuning in
right now to the wins. We will postpone our draft.
All of you have already paid tyfical decision, but I
(26:59):
think the right one. All things considers, especially how MLB
is officially announced, the link open day, when when the
season starts up, and how much it will be impacted
to try and past few days, not to mention the
uncertainty head we resumed there may be a possibility of
doing the auction live again with as. I think that
might be what he's kind of. I think I've asked
to try and make it happen. See everyone a person
in the camarady of guy families. It makes this group special.
I mission from day one piece. I am so deflated
(27:22):
right now. I am so deflated. I feel like this
has never happened. I actually my rankings now, I know,
I had a massive spreadsheet ready. I was really excited
to use it. I was so now like, I don't
have an auction to do for God knows when what
are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to
(27:43):
do when we're all stuck at home? Should we start
a food blog? I've been wanting to do that for
a long time. Yeah, I mean you got one coast
that got the other coast. I have this thing I'm
famous for now apparently that I don't like bananas. I
get a lot of heat for that. We can surely
like a whole thing about banana. Yeah, you try to
convince me to like bananas, but I feel like it's
not possible. You don't if you don't like him me
(28:04):
to like them. Yeah, I don't like bananas. It is
what it is. Yes, the draft postpone tonight demoralized the
rest world. I have all right, jas Post Let's move on. Okay.
The Huston Astros are cheating scumbacks. So you are a
you are a fan of said cheating scumbacks. Okay, what
(28:24):
is your action to to all of this? So obviously
it's been really difficult as a fan because you're you're
a fan. You have to stay a fan. You can't
just that's just kind of how it works, right, Um,
you're a fan of the franchise. It's been incredibly disappointing,
incredible disappointing. Some of my greatest memories, Like one of
my best memories ever in life was being at the
two thousand seventeen World Series with my father. You know,
(28:46):
like I've told this story before on this show, but
it's it was really hard. Um. But as far as
going forward, as far as fantasy is concerned, I think
that there's still a lot of value there and we
can talk about all of that. As far as being
a fan, I'm gonna not where my hat this year.
I feel like it. You know, do you think they
(29:07):
do you think that any of the players should have
been suspended? Do I think any the players should have
been suspended. Um, probably, I mean this is where it
gets tricky. I think there are players that are on
other teams now I think they're are players. I think
there was more coming from above. I don't know that
they say it was player lead, but it's like pointing
(29:28):
fingers and where do you start that, where do you
stop that? I don't know what they should have done.
Probably there were a few players that should have been
to suspend a bit. Then where do you draw the line.
I think you probably have just spend the whole team
if you do it, Yeah, I think that well. I
think giving them all immunity you needed. You needed to
do that to talk. We know that, but when you
(29:49):
see what it's I understand that Alex Bregman and jose
L two Bay are the faces of this. It certainly
seems like Carlos Curray was very much involved as well.
I don't know how they can go off unscathed, right
A j hinge Um Jeff Luno. They get suspended and
ultimately fired, and the players our problem, even though you
(30:10):
are the ones that did it, Like fine, managers are responsible.
I get it. But if you're child, if you're a
you're talking at trouble at school. They did something wrong, Fine,
you yell at the parents, that's true. The child is
the one that hit it. And yes, you can sit
down the child and be like, if you tell me
(30:32):
the truth, nothing will happen to you. But then usually
something happens to them because they did something wrong, and
the Astros players did something very wrong. Now the coronavirus
rightfully so so out overshadow all of this. Obviously it is,
and when they come back, I think everybody will be
so excited to play baseball that we're not going to
(30:53):
be like, oh yeah, those cheating Astro's comebacks. So again,
it's it's good Stros in a way that this goes
away for a little bit, but it's a black art.
I was really wondering how you as an Astro fan,
not from my fantasy perspective, but you was an Astros
fan and a season like you said, were the greatest
memories of your life with your father. I'm not taking
(31:15):
that away because that's always gonna be there, but but
it and everyone keeps saying that, but that that's always
going to be there, and what, Yeah, it is, but
it's not the same. I'm sorry, it's not really if
you have any idea, like, especially now that when I'm
an analyst, the amount of interaction that I see um
and that I get from people and Dodgers fans and
(31:37):
Yankees fans and Astros, it's so nasty and so ugly
and so awful to look at, and you just feel like, Okay,
so I saw something that I truly believed with this
was amazing. I was at home in Houston. It seemed
everything seemed legit to me. It was going back and forth.
The lead change was great game. But now we don't
even think they should have won the World Series? Maybe,
(31:57):
like what how can I say? I saw this in
amazing World Series game where this happened, and then Bregman
hit the you know RB I winning RBI? Did he
did he have a trash? Can? You know? So it's
it does change it a bit because I can't even
happily tell people. And I went to the World Series
and post the picture of me my dad with the Astros,
like that's that's not a popular photos summer. Yeah, it's
(32:22):
I get it. So it almost seems like you're hurt
by this, right, Yeah, I think a lot of the
fans are hurt and I will tell you that you
should all know that a few Houston Astros fans that
are going around, you know, making shirts and say hate
us that I hope you know that is not most
of Houston. I think that's a few people that are
reacting because they've been you know, they feel like they
(32:44):
get But you do feel as a fan like you're
starting to get bullied to just because you're a fan.
And it's not your fault. You didn't know, you're not
you shouted. What are you supposed to do? Like leave
your team? Like what if it was the Yankees? Would
you really just be like and now I first swear
the yank forever? You can't. I mean, such an awkward situation.
It's an extremely awkward situation. Um, and there's no right
(33:08):
way to handle it. Do you blame the players? And
teams will come out and be like, yeah, we're going
to hit him. Yeah. I think that's absolutely inappropriate. I do.
Basically they're basically their responses. MLB is not doing anything
bad it, so we will. Yeah. I just I think
that's not the way adults handle things, probably right, I mean,
(33:29):
I mean, you know, they bond us, so we're going
to bomb them, Well they did this, and I mean,
you know, like it's almost like it's it's safer to
have a fist fight. They have a ball completely. Yeah,
if you want to go have a fist fight, go
out in the backyard and do it. Absolutely, but a
ball to the face like you could you could kill someone,
(33:51):
like actually kill someone, and you could be doing it
and you'd be thinking you were here, you'd be having
on national TV. So you need to think about what
you're doing too. I mean you saw it hap and
with like Albert Elmore and the foul ball and the
little girl. Look how that affected. Imagine that you do
that to a player and then that players done right
can happen? Can the whole world will see it and
(34:15):
they will, like we said, Corona is going to change
all of that. Baseball if you're just tuning in, MLB
has postponed the start of the league at least two
weeks to around April nine. There's start March twenty six.
Spring training has been canceled along with the NBA, along
with the NHL, along with the MLS. Alowa college basketball,
both men's and women's tournaments all done, all gone at
(34:37):
the moment. Unfortunately, you meaged the astrois from a fantasy perspective.
Is there value in these players? That's what I think.
But again, this is something that might change again if
you're drafting tonight, which we're not not. But maybe by
the time the drafts come around again, maybe people won't
be as prejudiced against them. Like you said, maybe there
(34:57):
won't be value anymore. Because right now, sometimes people can
get an al two Bay in the fifth sixth round.
Are you not going to take all two in the
fifth or sixth, or seventh or eighth round? Right? I
totally agree with that, But right in two weeks, maybe
people have forgotten about it. Maybe all this will have
overshadowed it and people be like, yeah, two guys been
good for a long time. He's a second round player.
You're not going to get a value anymore, And then
(35:18):
you have to really decide. I see the same way.
But Alex Pregnant. I know nobody wants Alice pregnant, but
he was. He was amazing, and he was an amazing prospect.
He qualifies at short and at third, so you have
positional flexibility. I mean, he's a why wouldn't you? But
but if you have to take him in the first round.
Maybe you don't want to. Yep, the Jack Curry is
(35:38):
speculating that it's a flute situation with Major League Baseball,
but as we forecast with the MLB season, might look
like they could delay the season by three weeks, sprinkling
seven double headers over the next five months, and then
end up with about a hundred and fifty games. I mean,
they have they talked to it all about just eliminating
the All Star Break. I haven't that I haven't. Nobody watches.
(36:00):
Nobody watches it, but like it does get more ratings
than like any other baseball teams. Nobody watches baseball in general.
The XFL will have an announcement at four pm today,
we'll get the latest on them. That's kind of in
twenty minutes from now, so I'm sure that news will
break beforehand. Um, but that was inevitable. UM. Vince McMahon's
w w E put their show at their performance center yesterday.
(36:23):
It looks like Smacked Out on Friday will also be
in Orlando at their Performance Center as well. So that's
another situation worth the monetary. Of course, you can't. There's
no way, is no arena, there's no city that you
can just bring in and the fifteen people anymore. New York,
for instance, doesn't want large gatheringes of five hundred as
you As you said, they closed Broadway and it wasn't
(36:45):
even like and that's a big blow to the city. Uh.
My wife works at the museum. They have to cross.
They don't have a choice. Really tough time for everybody
right now going on both New York City of course,
home and away. I was gonna break. When do we
come back? We'll talk more with Gen p a Chet
about our draft. It's not happening tonight. Uh, and a
(37:07):
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(37:49):
final if it's seen it's coast to coast with Farrell,
you know, he's gonna have a lot to say. He
came on the air yesterday and he was saying, how
uh he thought it was a lock that March Madness
would ultimately get canceled. He was right, uh. Him and
Jarry Smith we're talking about yesterday on the program and
yards I think it's and all it takes is one
and we saw that last night jan with Rudy Gobert
and him getting Corona changed everything for a lot of people.
(38:14):
As I keep saying, it's going to get worse before
it gets better, I mean I've seen projections that millions
of us will get it. We don't necessarily know that
we have it. Well, I mean that's the other thing
that we have to all keep in mind that the
coronavirus is a strand of virus that is part of
the blue from the Cold, and they've known about this
for forever, just like the rhino is part of it. Right.
This is just a new strand of it. So there's
(38:35):
certain things that we aren't resistant to yet. Over time,
we're going to build up immunity, just like anybody does
to anything anything. And they are obviously working really hard
right now to get some kind of a vaccine and
all of that as well. So we know eventually we're
going to be able to stop this. I mean, I
can't imagine that we can't. But if we do these
precautions now, I think they're hoping that we can just
(38:57):
stop it from escalating. And so it's just much easier
to contain knowing what we do know. Um, but yeah,
once it we we may all have it. I mean
I watched the video from Tom Hanks's son, and you
know Tom Hanks, of course not he had and he's like,
you know, they're not really that sick. So just because
you have it doesn't mean you're going to be in
a terrible state. It just means we have to to
keep an eye on it and keep you from transferring
(39:18):
it from other people. And that's what we just don't
know because we don't have the tests. Absolutely they all
have it already. That's the thing. We we we may
have it. We again, like Rudy Gobert is ready to
play basketball last night, right, he was, he felt fine,
He's ready to play, Yeah, and he had the coronavirus.
Like that's how you know that it is could be
(39:39):
within any of us, Like I feel a hundred percent fine.
You seem ad percent fine right like we may have it.
We have had it for a few days now, without
the fever, without the cause. Yeah, and of course we
we just have no idea. Obviously, are um a whole
the whole other story. Obviously, UM get in some players
now that we're not drafting at each other, let's just talk,
(40:01):
just talk about some players. I want to. He's always
gonna connected. A former astro Okay, you're growing up, was
Craig Bigio. His son, Cavin Bigio now plays baseball for
the Blue Jays, who we were just talking about. Read
this spring and the Blue Jays in the White Sox,
two teams everyone's looking at like they're fun. They're fun.
Cavin Bigio has kind of been one of my guys
(40:22):
on Brian Reynolds Safari Planet. Those two guys you get
that joke were now come on, like frank doesn't get
it because Franklin doesn't get pop culture. Like I feel
like you could have Brian Reynolds Safari Planet. Nothing you
don't watch Saturday Night Live, Sorry, Tracy Morgan. Tracy Morgan
shoun do a sketch well, Brian Fellow Safari Planet, and
(40:44):
it was like it was one of his more known sketches,
and he basically played a child that wasn't all there
and he would just see these animals hosting, and he
hosted the show called Safari Planet and Brian Fellows and
it's Brian Reynolds Fari. It's okay. I had a whole
thing that I did about Alex d of madisone all
football season. Some people got that. Some people know Hamilton's,
(41:06):
but yeah, speaking Broadway, because anything right now. So I
saw Hamilton for the second time last month. I bought
my wife tickets for her birthday to see Hamilton's on
my birthday. It was like a really earliant idea. I
mean that she agreed, Yeah she did. She didn't feel
like that's like when you like buy a woman lingerie
for her birthday. Sounds good. Thanks Hunting wasn't all I
(41:30):
got out of it was I just got to people
for dinner. I was gonna be a deal. So we
saw it and I liked it like even better the
second time I did too. It was I did to
the second time I saw because it's a lot easier
to follow. Like the first time, you're just like, what
my mind blown total it's going on. There's so many words,
you can't understand all the words exactly. The second time
is better. I watched the second time, I'm like, not
only I understand it way more like the second act,
(41:52):
which I always remember, is being like slower. All the
fun all the fun songs are like the first act
and the second act. Alright, it's a little slower, little
bit boring. It was amazing, brilliant. I know I have
the same reaction. I'm also obsessed with Tomorrow Green, who
played George Washington for me. He is Oh my god,
he's better than the original. I really believe that you
(42:12):
talk about like George Washington, you talk about presents, right,
this guy at a presence, and I wanted to give
him when he does um um, what's this? What's the
famous short Washington song? And second act one last time?
You know he does one last time. It was just
his swan song in the show. I wanted to give
m a standing relation in the middle of the show.
(42:36):
It was amazing act him fan mail. By the way,
do you know that I play in my Big League?
I played Tomorrow because I got a piece of fan
mail from someone that saw me on stage, and now
we're partners and I playing this money lot, so always
send fans you never know where it's gonna lead. So
we looked him because we were so impressed. He like
does like just like what he says. It seems like
he's like he's not like lit Manuel Morander, right, he's
(42:57):
like a normal Broadway guy, like just people. Yeah, exactly
as you were saying. They're all kind of that they
have off work. Um. So I was like, this guy
is amazing. I will I will follow him in whatever
show he does next. I will see this guy. That's
how impressed I was. It was it should be. It
was awesome. I'm not saying like every character is better
than the first time I saw it, Like there are
(43:17):
some actors and don't I want name it? Like I
was like, I really like the better the first time,
but it was still really cool. I really enjoyed that.
Did you see lin Manuel you did? I remember this?
We talked about this and I was so angrysh And
then I saw another guy that was honestly probably I
saw Farren's son do it. Oh that's cool. Yeah, his
mother's an opera teacher. I did not know that talented family.
(43:39):
I saw Taryn kill Him as King George. That so
Taryn Killum was better than the person that played King
George for me. And I also decided like Tary killam
better than Jonathan Grolf playing the role. Really listen, I
didn't see him, but do you know who I saw?
Guy that was on Smash? Oh that Christian Moral Smash.
(44:00):
The other one that was about Broadway was Smash. Yeah,
you saw Brian Dorcy James do it. James was amazing.
He was the original. He was amazing. He came back
to do it when I saw it, and he was amazing, awesome.
Never left so hard, so halted. This is what happened. Sorry,
guys that were supposed to be talking about sports, but hey,
(44:20):
there never Broadway, Fantasy Broadway or something. Are you are
you gonna see six? You know what six is? No,
I'm not. I mean I'm not here long enought Yeah,
that communion. Yeah, if I come back. So same Six
is about Henry the Eighth Six Wives, and it's like
eight minutes long. It's like a pop musical. That's awesome.
(44:42):
I had to take it to the Sunday and now
I cannot. They'll they'll Bill do Hey, don't think so
I don't agree. Come on, are you so? Am I in? Yes,
I'm mildly in. I'm not as crazy as some people
are about him. Now here's the thing. I think that
Kevin Biggio is more valuable in obi P League avertly,
and that's one thing to be aware of. I do
(45:03):
think he'll run. His dad obviously, is great hitter three
you know, three thousand hits, you know, Hall of fame. Um,
but I'm not a d I prefer like the sets better,
no doubt better. Um but yeah, no, I like Kevin
Bijo and all those baby jays are having a great spring.
They are there. You're getting excited. You've seen Ladimir Guerrero's
(45:26):
praised dip and then go back, Um, who doesn't want
to have a share of vlad Junior. You gotta at
least right, at least in one league, right, you can
really go big. I mean, I'm not convinced it's not
enough tour. I'm putting him everywhere, but you can have
at least one share. I think, Um, you want, we
want somebody, right even as like like all right, I
could deal with that. Yeah, I love Lord of Scary.
(45:47):
Actually I've actually rostered him for like free. The last
couple of years he's always paid off. Sure, and maybe
this year's even Betterly he's betting third, I think in
this lineup roster resources. So it's like, all right, sure,
why not? And then I mentioned, um, imagine my man
Brian Reynolds. You said you like Brian Reynolds. Why's that?
Because he does everything it doesn't cost you anything. And
he's like a mini Michael Brantly. Michael Brantly, who would
(46:10):
not agree more with you? See this this right here?
How about that maybe we should have a team to
maybe we agree with problem. Yeah, I'm totally with you
with Brian Reynolds. He's a mini Michael Brentley, gives you a
a good average, you could get you fifteen fifteen. Absolutely,
And then like you spent nothing for him, he's your
boring player. I am a big proponent of having a
few boring players on your team with your stars. So
(46:31):
the problem with Frankie is that he likes all boring players,
Like he's obsessed old guys. Right, So I mentioned like
Charlie Morton before, and there's like an old guy like
Frank's pretty interested in them. He's like he's like the
all Joey Evado, No, not that old, not like Joey
Vado and not like Meg Cabraro. It isn't like he
likes Justinton Oh, I love Justin upton He's a sleeper
(46:53):
pick for me. He likes Justin, he likes Andrew McCutcheon.
Any cutching, I'm not so sure about anymore. Besides, he
should only ever be a pirate with dreads. I don't
agree on the dreads um, but like the cutcheon, he's
another player of the drafted tonight, like he could be
back around me. He could be, he could be, but
he's not one I'm pursuing. Just not that I like
because he's always been a source of thirty home runs.
(47:14):
I mean, he's never been injured until last year that
was really an outlier. So I'm all about upton Um.
But now that we've said that a hundred times, and
you're gonna have two or three more weeks to hear
that before the season starts, he probably won't be cheap anymore.
I mean, that's the other thing that's all going to change.
And being in that lineup where you kind of look
at it like, wait, there's better than I realized. This
this line up. So, um, that's that's what the Angels
(47:37):
with Mike Trout I wis showing Tony at h And
that's another one shows honey that Arm could be working
a whole lot better. First could interesting? I think. I
think that's another interesting one. So a whole lot going
on there, um with what's going to change in May?
All right, we have two minutes left, Jen, Where can
(47:58):
people hear you? Watch you listen? Oh? Yeah, you can
check out my work at Fantasy Alarm dot com. I'm
also on Serious XM Radio regularly on Friday nights for
Alarm After Hours and then um I'm supposed to be
if you guys are listening to the Town broadcast this
weekend broadcasting the Talent Mixed Auction this Saturday from three
to eight pm Eastern Time. We'll see if that still
goes forward. I hope it does. But otherwise you can
find me on Serious XM or at Fantasy Alarm com.
(48:21):
I'm writing for the Jim Bowden draft. Guys. There you go.
And I've seen you tweet lot of stuff with Jim
Bowden and he's perspective on Yeah, we've done a few
radio shows together and he's It's great because we get
a little bit of inside information that you're not getting.
So he'll be like, oh, I just texted you know,
Dave Martinez or whatever you know, and you're like, oh,
that's the new closer. I know something somebody else doesn't, right,
(48:45):
So we get that g M connection that a lot
of people don't. So that is the one advantage of
the Jim Bowden U. That's one of many you can
use cade Jen, j and if you want to get it,
if you listening, there you go, Jenny. We really appreciate
you coming in and hanging out. So I'm also happy
(49:05):
you came in. I'ms happy Frank was in here to
experience it either. Maybe maybe the show so much better,
so it's great. Hopefully I can see Frank next time.
Well hopefully you know you'll be back when we do
this draft. Really if we do this draft, Um, thank
you so much for coming up. Next it is Coast
to Coust with Pharrell. He's at the metal Land Sports Book,
which is closing down pretty shortly. I want to thank
(49:27):
Sean and Alice for the fantastic job downstairs. Want to
thank the Chip at chid enjoining me. Frank and I well,
I I don't love Frank, but we're gonna do this
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