Welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm your host James Anderson. And this week, we are joined by Bob Kramutola, the 2022 NFBC main event champion. And Bob and I have already been in some gladiator drafts together. So's it's perfect timing we actually did one last night

uh bob how you doing really appreciate you join me oh i'm doing great james hope you're doing well

um i listen i appreciate i'm i've been a big fan for a long time i appreciate you invite me on

oh of course uh very happy to have you um know, you're coming off an awesome season in the NFBC.

Really appreciate your support at Rotowire as well. So I think I've probably been in drafts with you.

I know I was in drafts with you last year.

I can't recall that the history's already gone,

but I can't recall exactly how those leagues shook out.

I've probably been in drafts with you even before last year.

But I remember, I think I kind of sort of, you came into my consciousness for the first time. I was listening to a pod, John Lagasse's pod, and Matt Modica referred to you as Bobby Bigbucks.

And that's just a great nickname for a high-stakes fantasy baseball player.

So I'm curious how you got the nickname Bobby Bigbucks.

Yeah.

So Vlad Settler gave to me, actually.

You know, I know Vlad from football from a few years ago.

I used to be a sub to a company that he worked for. And

when he left them, I kind of followed them. And, you know, we DM back and forth a lot on

Twitter. And he's been a great fan and supporter of mine. And one time I was just curious about,

you know, what it takes to potentially, you know, I had an interest in the sports

field and then what's to take the startup like a company, like, you know, not necessarily a

roto wire, but, you know, FTN or that, what kind of money? And, you know, so, you know,

glad to have an experience. I said, all right, so if i have x amount of money is that enough and i guess

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