Welcome to the Rotwire Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I'm your host James Anderson.

And this week, we got a first-time guest on the show, my friend Mark Winoker,

who plays in the NFBC.

I met Mark a couple years ago in Vegas, and that was a lot of fun.

And then we hung out again this past year and we've been

talking a little bit here and there and I just thought it'd be great to have you on the show

really appreciate you taking the time to join me mark how you doing doing great james this is a

thrill for me and I really appreciate you having me on absolutely man um yeah I feel like we're

kind of uh sympathetico on a lot of. So I thought this would be a fun time. How about just first of all, like how long have you been playing high stakes fantasy baseball in the NFBC?

Yeah, great question. I love kind of the people's fantasy origin stories. So for

NFBC 2012, so this was my 12th season with the NFBC. I first played $125 satellite,

happened to win that league with R.A. Dickey, winning the Sy Young that year and one of my later picks. So it

really got me hooked. But my origin story is a little bit interesting. I played my first

fantasy baseball league in 1985 after purchasing the Rotisserie fantasy baseball book. And we started an NL only auction league with 10 other high school friends back in 85.

Eric Davis was my big purchase then.

And I was the original prospect guy, James.

I went, my team name was the Winokor Wonderkinds.

And Gerald Perry and Brad Cominks from Atlanta were two of my picks. They were, they were rookies at the time. And they did not really work out.

But so I really got my first taste there. We would get the sporting news once a week. It had the statistics. I'd go to my

dad's office and we would enter them into the Apple 2 and keep the stats that way. So, you know, I know

we had the site crash the other day and all the hand-wringing. Just imagine not having instantaneous

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