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Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast. I'm Scott Jensen, filling in for Jeff Erickson this Thursday. Usually Jeff is here on Thursdays with a guest from the industry.

I'm doing the same filling in. I am happy to be joined by Michael Gowice. I'm really, I'm someone I've

not, I followed on Twitter for a while, enjoy all his videos.

They always make me laugh. And I've never actually had a full discussion with them. So I thought it'd be a good time to jump on. Michael, how are you tonight? Well, Scott, it's a real pleasure to be here on the Rotowire podcast. I got to tell you, this is a long time coming. and it's a special night for me.

I take pride in these little moments

because I grind and grind and grind

doing the Plato podcast and working for rhodophonetic dot com so this is a big night for me thanks for having me absolutely i was i was i was happy that you said yes and i was having looking forward to jumping on talking to baseball talking some other stuff whatever may come by, you know, it's been fun to have a lot

of new people in the industry over the last bunch of years. And, you know, you're one of those ones that every time the video comes up, I crack up and you've got something different going on. So I like, I like your different approach. It's a very different approach to a lot of people have. But let everybody know where they can find you. People don't know, don't know you, especially where they can find your work where anything can find your podcast, where they can find you on Twitter, all that kind of

good stuff. Sure thing. I got the spiel ready to go, Scott. Beautiful. I'm at Palazzo podcast, 2Ls, 2Zs, of course, in case you're wondering, on Twitter. Mainly Twitter is where we do most of our feed and have our activity available to you. Of course, at M.J. Govier, G-V-O-V-I-R on Twitter is my main Twitter profile. And at RodafonFenetic.com, I do a lot of fun work there too. So you can find us over that, ROTUS underscore Fanatic. Beautiful. Give me a quick background. I don't know a ton about how you've got in the industry, how long you've been around, how did you start, what kind of leagues you play in? Give me a quick minute spiel on who you are, how you got here, and what you've been doing. Well, first time I played fantasy baseball, Scott, was in 1999. I can see it now doing my draft at the Central Michigan University Computer Lab, surrounded by, you know. What is is that the Chippewas? That is a Chippewas. Nice. Nice. There you go. Apparently, Dick Enberg went there too, legendary broadcaster. So, all right. Fantastic. They were known for their broadcasting. That's why I actually went there when I was first out of college, or first out of high school. And it didn't go very well, just to keep that part short. But that was my first draft. And I remember drafting Frank Thomas in particular. That was one thing that stands out. Nice. But overall, I've played forever. I always loved baseball. Baseball was a big passion of mine. I love football, love basketball. I play all those sports. I enjoyed them. But baseball is always something that was something unique about it that kind of drew me to it a bit more.

And I got into the industry when we started doing the Palazzo podcast in 2020. And people may say,

Palazzo podcast. What is that? Hey, Enrico Palazzo. It was a movie, the naked gun, which is like...

A reference I actually got. We're good. Yes, I knew we'd find one. Yeah. There has to be one somewhere. It's an old, old movie, 1988, I think. But it's got one of the best baseball scenes ever. It really does. Yeah.

It's classic.

It's a third act and it's a lot of fun.

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