Hey, everyone, everybody, welcome to the RodeWire Fantasy Baseball podcast, the Sunday night

slash Monday morning version, however, wherever you happen to be living time zone-wise. I'm Scott Jansda. Jeff Erickson is out for one more week, so I will not. He'll be back next Sunday, but I'm joined this week by a special guest, Toby, also known as a bat flip crazy on Twitter. A big NFBC player has his own podcast. Also, everybody probably knows who he is. Toby, thanks for jumping on. I really appreciate it. I think that we've done like live streams together. I don't know if we've ever done like a full podcast. It should be fun. Totally. Yeah, I think we did like potapalooza together, something like that. But I really appreciate the opportunity to be here. And this is a podcast I listen to all the time.

And I know people know it as kind of the gold standard in fantasy baseball.

So really honored that you invited me, Scott.

And I know big shoes to fill with that with Jeff's absence.

So I'll do my best.

We'll go with medium shoes.

That's fun.

Yeah.

Like size 10, something like that.

Oh, yeah, there you go go I'm nine and a half so I kind of put that right in the middle somewhere so I appreciate

you wearing the A's hat that's a good shout right there I do you're starting out well so

that's good yeah of course I mean I this was very deliberate uh took my my seven-year-old to his

first game that he could really understand what was happening

and was an A's game recently so I got this this snazzy sneasy gear I like your shirt too

I haven't seen that one but that's a I like it a lot like a baseballism or one of the like

fancy company shirts but it's a it's a cool one yeah I took I was going to say my daughter

my daughter's been a bunch of games because we, we, we know some people. And we knew

Brad Ziegler, who pitched for many years. So we've been to a couple games. And we were, I remember the first game we were at Petco and Jose Yerenna came up and gave her a ball. And I'm like you're never going to top that. You get a ball from your first game and I'm like, oh,

it's Jose Arenas. Maybe not that great, but you know, it works. So.

Tell her was somebody different different like somebody a little bit better. I'll tell her it was jazz chisholm because she won't know that the dates don't match up will be good when he gets in the Hall of Fame we'll just call it that it'd be good so so before we jump into Fab as we do on Sunday nights I want to talk a couple just things with you, some NFBC strategy, kind of look at week 12 a little bit. I think you and I are kind of in the same spot, FPC-wise, kind of middling so far. I think, and correct me if I'm wrong there, but I think you're like, you know, a lot of fifth and six places. And, you know, that's not a horrible spot to be on whatever we are, June 13th. Obviously, you want to be a little better. And I know you've won, what if you won four or five main events?

I've won four. I won one two years ago and then three of the sprint one. So those count as a third of a season. I think I'm at like a total of two. That's still, any main event league is pretty good. So, but I want to ask you, like you're in the middle of the pack right now. How are you kind of figuring out these last two months?

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