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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

A Tribute to Tags (Ep. 758)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Joey P., Dan, and Yates join together to remember our dear and beloved friend, Mike Tagliere.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Dan Harris. I'm here with Kyle Yates and Joe Pisa Pia. The vast majority of you

0:06.8

listening to this, I'm sure know the absolutely terrible news that tags might taglier

0:14.2

past away on Friday night from complications due to COVID. We are devastated. We're trying to

0:22.5

function the best we can, but we thought that it was important for us to at least get on here so

0:29.0

that the next thing you hear from this podcast isn't a fantasy football podcast, which there will

0:34.4

still be, of course, going forward. But we thought it was important for us to at least talk,

0:40.8

tell you guys this way, talk about how we're feeling, talk about our friend, our family member

0:47.8

that we miss right now. So, yeah, I'm going to go to you first just because obviously we have worked

0:53.5

closely with tags for the last two years. I mean, whatever you want to say about how you're feeling

0:59.2

right now, please, please do so. Oh, man. I thought I was okay. And so we started recording.

1:07.6

This has been a very difficult 24 hours since we started to get the news that he was trending

1:14.8

towards this happening. And there have been moments where we have been preparing for this,

1:20.0

where we have been preparing for the worst case scenario. But,

1:24.1

man, when that message came through, I was I was rocked to my core. Tags is legitimately one of

1:33.3

the best friends that I have ever had in my life. He's been a mentor to me for so many years. I

1:40.9

owe literally everything as far as my career to him and his guidance and his just kind of welcoming,

1:49.6

you know, spirit. This has been just the absolute worst case scenario. And there have been moments

1:56.2

where I'm like, okay, I'm going to wake up from this. It's going to be a bad dream. And I won't

2:00.5

have to worry about this. And, you know, I'm going to wake up to a ton of Slack messages from him.

2:06.1

And every single message of support that we get, which are just incredible, the amount of support

2:10.8

that we ever see from you guys. This has just been overwhelming. It's incredible. But every single

2:14.7

message that does come through, it is a reminder that he, this is real. And now we have to learn to

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