Over the weekend, the fantasy football community learned that Mike Tagliere passed away after

battling COVID.

You guys may remember me giving tags a shout on this podcast about a month and a half ago

as he started his fight.

It's just a gut punch.

It's just really, really sad.

I wanted to share something that I wrote about tags that was used in the introduction to

this week's 15 transactions article.

It gives you a good idea of the man that he was and what he meant to me as someone who

got to know him through work over the years.

He would always ask about my family first.

We could go back and forth about fantasy football for hours if we wanted to.

But when I did a show with tags, the first question he'd asked before we hit record was,

how's your wife and little girl doing?

Mike Tagliere, tags, understood the importance of having that family foundation.

He openly talked about how his wife, Tabby, pushed him to chase after his dream of being

a full-time fantasy football analyst.

How she was the one he owed his success to.

I met Tags and Tabby at a conference in Dallas years ago.

We had plenty of group conversations that week, but I can remember Tags pulling me aside

at one point to talk about his goals.

Two things stood out to me during that chat.

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