Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fancy Baseball podcast. I'm Jeff Erickson.

And my guest today is the great Mike Podhorzer from Rotographs and Projections X 2.0.

How's it going, Mike?

Great. You know, it's been a while since I've seen your face. So I'm glad that we can finally do this almost like we're in person for the first time in years.

I know, I know. We're starting to do like, you know, I did the NFBC live this year and that was awesome to do in first pitch Arizona, but, you know, Tau, we've two years running, we've had to do it online. Both times we had planned to do it. In fact, two years ago in 2020, we made the call pretty late because that was just at the start of the pandemic and no one knew what the heck was going on.

And then last year, we were planning and do it live in person again.

And then the various testing requirements for everybody, you know, not everybody feels the same way about vaccinations and tests and whatever.

And New York has certain rules that not everybody could go by.

So we decided to wait one more year to do it in person. So we did it online again. So here we are. I'm in two leagues with you. I'm in Tau Wars. I'm also with you at the Labor Mix League. That's the first draft I usually do every year. First one that, at least in maybe a couple of like draft champions, slow draft type leagues, but the first live draft that I do is labor. And in that one, you caught a lot of heat because

you took a, you did not, most of us in the fantasy industry are risk averse to a fault.

You kind of turned that on its head. And so far, so good. It's looking great so far.

Yeah, well, I'm not immune to the Slack. I feel like every year in that Labor League, it's usually

one of, if not the first drafts, and especially the first one that's actually, actually publicized

that people are

commenting on. And I do seem to make some early surprise picks. Usually it's some stolen

base guy in the past. It's been the D. Gordons, the Billy Hamilton's. Luckily, they are

either no longer in the league or bench players.

And so I did not have that opportunity.

But, yeah, I took a lot of guys coming off injury.

And so far that's worked out.

We don't know if that's going to continue because as soon as the injuries start to come,

they seem to pile up.

...