You're listening to Wins Above Fantasy, part of the Pitcherless podcast network with Van Burnett and Steve Giswelly.

Welcome back, everyone, and it is Wins About Fantasy episode 150.

Steve, it feels like a mini milestone, even though, you know, here we are post-trade deadline,

certainly getting into the grind of it. It is episode 150, and we are talking stretch-run,

WaverWire Heroes. And if we knew that these guys were waiver wire heroes for a fact,

then we would be rich men, Steve, because these are these are dart throws. At this point,

these are gambles, and we've got a fun exercise that we are doing kind of a mini game here

tonight to try to find diamonds in the rough

and that exercise itself can be rough and bleak but that's kind of what it feels like this time

of year when you're out looking at the recent ads uh you know the the the top ads in your league

and you're like i don't know that i want any of these guys, but you've got to

find somebody to move the needle with some streaming or with somebody that's got some positive

signs pointing up.

So it's going to be a fun show.

We got pitchers and hitters to talk about.

And Steve, it'll be one that we get to come back and measure for the banter in a couple months' time.

But how's it going out there, man?

That's good. It's good.

It was a fun trade deadline.

I don't know.

There's something about baseball trade deadline, maybe because it's like when you're a kid

and the baseball fan, it's during summer, and like you're just sitting there watching baseball tonight all day long as a kid waiting for the trades to come in. It's during summer and like you're just sitting there watching

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