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The Everybody, welcome to the Roto Wire fantasy baseball podcast for Thursday.

Today is July 8th.

Jeff Erickson here.

And my co-host today is Griffin Benger. He is leading the Rotowire Online Championship with the NFBC. Griffin, congrats on the

great start. It's not luck. It's good skill. So I won't say, you know, that. But hey, what's a lot of good

things. A lot of good things have had to go right for this, this to happen, Jeff.

I have no illusion. Of course. Of course. And naturally, it has to. You have to avoid the whamies. But, you know, so far so good. We're going to hit up a few news items real quick at the top of the show. And then we'll jump into the secrets of Griffin's success and a whole lot more. So first of all, Clayton Kirschaw going on the aisle for the Dodgers. They're playing a day game right now. Julio Arias is getting a ton of run support. They're up six, one in the seventh, but they're hurting right now. Talk about a team that's had a ton of starting pitching depth, but now Kirsha goes on the aisle. They've had two bullpen starts already this week. Looks like they might have another one for Kershaw's turning the rotation too. Yeah, I mean, Kershaw, obviously a huge backbone of the Dodgers. And a lot of fantasy teams, too, ones that are probably competing against me. So a small part of me is like, oh, well, it's not too bad. Right. It's, yeah, it's too bad for the Dodgers. I mean, he's, it's Kershaw, man. Right. And that's the whole thing is like, you're, you never root for injuries, but exactly. You're like, okay, well, who does this hurt that I'm going against too at the same time? Have you gotten to the point where you're starting to look at other people like in the top 10, see who they have?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I was sort of neck and neck with one guy in the standings for a well.

And he had a very similar pitching staff.

But actually the one difference was that he had Kershaw in particular.

But then again, of course, I lost Bauer last week to that whole awful situation.

But in general, I mean, I've had incredible, you know, good fortune with my, the injuries.

And I think it's really easy to appreciate it when you're playing multiple leagues because you see all the other leagues where you have all these, all these guys go down and then,

and then to see how much i mean

i don't think of of my you know core one through six pitchers that any of them have missed a turn in the

rotation um you know maybe de grom i think maybe missed one one turn but like not really and maybe it's just a

shortened one uh you know musgrove hasn't

hasn't missed one rodon and bower until what happened last week so you know a lot of good fortune

for sure yeah that's right uh now with kershai you always think that okay are they trying to manage him

just a little bit is this a case of coming down with dodgeritis but then there is a note today saying

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