Hey everybody.

Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy Baseball podcast, Jeff Erickson here with Fred Zinky.

And I've already off kilter because I forgot to do my little

intro thing that we've been doing that now. So it went straight to the music. We could do it again.

You want music in an intro? No, no, just kidding. It's so busy right now, Fred. This is great.

We didn't have time. We didn't have time. We didn't have the extra 15 seconds for that regular

intro, the new intro.

Yeah, we did not, but that's okay. But hey, really excited about this, you know, because there's a lot to talk about.

Even though I'm also not so excited about my franchise, it was fun for that year and a half when we were trying, Fred.

But the Reds are no longer trying.

In fact, they are trying my patience.

They're one of the two most cynical franchises in baseball right now.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, it's disappointing.

They made a kind of effort to compete for a couple years.

Like, I'd say like a kind of effort. It's not like, like when my Blue Jays rebuilt after the Batista Donaldson and Carnassian generation, like it's annoying, but I could live with that. Like that was a team that went to the ALCS two years in a row and like every good player on that team was in their 30. Not every good player, but most of them were in their 30s. Like that made a lot of sense. Like I felt like that team went for it. The David Price trade and all those things. The Reds like, I don't even think they went for it. They were really. They were willing to be competitive. Yes, they were willing to be competitive. They were willing to try to be a wildcard team for a couple years. And that's it. Yeah, that's right. Nick Kral talked about, I'm going to use the line one more time and then I'll put it to bed. Nick Kroll said we're trying to eliminate the peaks in valleys. Like, what peaks? There were no peaks. 83 wins is not a peak.

31 and 29 was scoring zero runs and two playoff games is not a peak.

It's a peak at what other franchises.

You could take a good look at Atlanta who was on the way to building something good.

One NLCS and then World Series the next year, that's a peak.

You know, you can't, you can't yell at the Braves fans can't complain about not getting

Freddie Freeman back, not only because they won the World Series, but guess what?

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