Hello, welcome to episode 1493 of The Sleeper in the Bust.'s Monday, April 6th. I'm your host, Paul Sporer. Join this afternoon by Justin Mason. Justin, good afternoon, sir. How we doing? Doing very well, man. You come in fresh off of your rotowire appearance last night. Good job talking with Jeff. We've both been on already, and it's only April 6.. Not bad. I know, right? It's kicking off the season well going on in the big show. Good start to the season. Been on RodeWire. I've been on Fantasy Bros. It's got to get on CBS, I think, and a few other shows. Yeah, start to, you know, hey, we're available, folks. Always appreciate the invites.

People send invites.

It's great.

We love it.

And I'm glad that you were able to get on there last night.

It was awesome.

I didn't know you were going to be on either. So it was a nice little surprise when I was sitting there waiting. I'm like, oh, bam, there's Justin. Let's freaking go. Yeah. in for mr scott jenstead it's a really good thing you bring it up actually someone asked me in my like, hey, if I want to get into like content creation, how do I do? And I get them, you know, a few pointers. But if you're going to start a podcast, just invite people. Like, like, because it brings more eyes. And I think Paul and I are, you know, some of the people in the industry who will kind of always say yes as long as it fits into our schedule. Exactly. Don't assume who will and won't say yes.

Ask.

The worst. are, you know, some of the people in the industry who will kind of always say yes as long as it fits into our schedule.

Exactly. Don't assume who will and won't say yes. Ask. The worst is a no. I mean, the worst is probably a ghost from somebody, but that won't kill you. That doesn't hurt you in anyway.

I wouldn't be where I'm at today if you and Jason and Eno hadn't said yes to like early episodes of FWFB. So like, you know, just supportive industry. It's a supportive industry. I mean, by and large, you got Yahoo's in anything, right? We don't need to dwell on that. The overall community is amazing. Man, taking shots at Yahoo already. That's not a shot at Yahoo. That was actually just an inadvertent slip there. No. But yeah, you know, you got dweeds and clowns, but we don't need to harp on that. You got so many amazing people in this community. You saw it firsthand. You wrote an amazing article about some just punishing loss that you've had. Seven years ago, you and Danielle, you know, lost your son. And you talked about how fantasy baseball really brought you through there. And, you know, your willingness to share not only stuff like that, but just a lot of your history, for those that don't know, and I'm not speaking on turn, Justin talks about it all the time, but you're a recovering addict. And the things that you are comfortable talking about lets people know that they're not alone. They're not the only ones that have dealt with that, right? It, you know, it's hard, it's difficult and, you know, something you want to fix or whatever, but just know you're not alone. And everyone's been through hardship, personal, familial, relational, all sorts of stuff. But that's why we are a community. And I think this community rallies around folks as well as any other. I'd put the fantasy baseball community against any other community I've been in. I've been in other great, you know, hobby communities, the fantasy baseball one. There's a reason I wanted to make it my living. I love the people in it and it's awesome. So check out that article. Mason's Musings, by the way, coming out once a week? Yep, every Friday.

You and Joe got new articles out, and I'm loving them both. They're kind of freestyle articles, so you never know what the topic's going to be, and I like that. I like that kind of, you know, freestyle ability for you guys. So that's been great. We talk often, Justin, about how difficult the early part of the season is with content, right? because we're not telling anybody to cut guys from like the top two thirds of their draft. Again, injury changes

everything, playing time changes everything. I'm talking about underperformance. I do not give a

shit about the 10 games that somebody's had if they're, first off, if they're single digit

round, don't even, don't even put it in my chat.

So you shouldn't be dropping Logan Webb and El Raleigh like I got asked to. Correct. Like, don't even put that in my chat. But then you start getting into the, you know, 10 through 15 rounds and depending on deep your league, I'm not even really looking at them. You should be churning the bottom third of your roster right now. You can make moves. I'm not saying don't do anything.

Just leave those guys alone.

And if you didn't think Kurtz, You should be churning the bottom third of your roster right now. You can make moves. I'm not saying don't do anything.

Just leave those guys alone. And if you didn't think Kurtz and Raleigh were going to be a little bit, you know, worse than they were last year, that was your fault anyway, right? And I'm not even saying that they are. They could rise up out of this and be right back where they were last year, but we were baking in some regression for those. but I did find something that we can talk about that I think won't be fun.

And basically just kind of a more power, kind of throw back to last year, but we were baking in some regression for those. But I did find something that we can

talk about that I think will be fun. And basically just kind of a more power, kind of throw back

to a home improvement there. Because we're talking velocity risers and bat speed risers. And

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