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Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Mind Wanders

Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball

The Athletic

Sports, Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Mlb

4.7875 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Rundown
1:28 Why Is There Animosity Between R2-D2 and Yoda?
3:49 Is Fleetwood Mac Yacht Rock?
7:23 AlbumGraphs?
12:48 Answering Questions About a Shortened Season
24:22 More Aggressive Promotions for Rookies?
31:31 Draft & Hold, Best Ball Thoughts
46:59 How to Prevent Reliever-Heavy Builds
50:30 Keeper/Dynasty Preparing for a Future Run
64:10 Incentivizing Mid-Pack Teams?

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 79. It's March 19th. Derek Van Riper

0:19.7

here with Enosaurus. On this episode,

0:22.4

we're going to discuss a variety of topics, mostly driven by the questions that we've been

0:26.1

receiving around the request for Project Goat Worksheets. So we're doing a pretty good job, I think,

0:31.6

of staying on top of those requests. But there are questions about the shortened season,

0:36.6

questions about Keeper League strategy, draft and hold strategy, all sorts of different things. So hopefully

0:41.8

some very broad, interesting topics that will apply to a lot of people, even if they don't

0:46.4

play in some of those particular formats. Eno, how's it going for you on this Thursday?

0:54.2

Settling in, settling in, got a couple marathons going where we're watching different

1:00.2

movies with different kids, basically.

1:04.1

We got different things going on.

1:05.7

Got an order into Amazon for a bunch of workbooks and a big encyclopedia of all of the spaceships and vehicles

1:19.1

in Star Wars that my elder one is going to really enjoy.

1:23.9

That sounds like a pretty cool book.

1:26.2

Yeah, it pairs up with what we're doing with the fact that we're watching all of the Star Wars movies in the order of the story.

1:34.5

So we have slogged our way through episodes 1, 2, and 3.

1:41.5

And today we're on 5, actually.

1:43.6

And the question on my mind is, why does R2D2 poke Yoda?

1:50.4

Shouldn't he know Yoda?

1:54.9

These are the kinds of questions that we never thought we'd put as much thought into

1:58.6

as we're putting into now.

2:00.5

They're here on

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