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cards launching each and every day. Derek Van Riper back from vacation with a guest co-host,

one of my best friends in this business. Vlad Sedler, you know him on Twitter as Roto Gut. Vlad

of course writes at Fantasy Guru.com and he is one of the absolute most

successful players I know both in Fantasy Baseball and in Fantasy Football. Vlad, thanks for

joining me today. Thank you, DVR. Always a pleasure to talk to one of my oldest friends in the industry.

Yeah, man, it's been a while now since we've been doing these things

together. And it's been really a strange year. I think we say this every year. Like,

oh, this year is so weird. This year's so different. 2020, okay, short and season pandemic year that was

unique onto itself. And hopefully we never live anything like that again. This season,

the injuries have been through the roof.

I mean, Derek Rhodes has the data on that over a baseball prospectus,

and you see just how much we're dealing with injuries league-wide,

and it's unprecedented.

How are your teams doing so far?

Have you weathered the storm pretty well through the first two months and change?

I weathered the storm for the first month and a half.

And just, you know, you're never as good or riding as high as you think you are.

And then reality sets in.

And that's basically what's happened over the last couple of weeks.

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