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

Welcome back, everybody.

It is Wins Above Fantasy episode 185 to commemorate my team's batting average this week.

We got a great show lined up tonight. We are

talking fantasy all-stars, which is always a topic you can slice and dice different ways, but

very excited to have you guys joining us. I'm Van Burnett, joined as always by Mr. Steve Giswelly.

Steve, it's all-star break time.

I know we were talking about the derby, just some excitement in the air.

Last week we did kind of our first half storylines this week.

We are going position by position talking about fantasy, all-stars,

with maybe a little bit of a different criteria than we've done in years past where

you know sometimes we do kind of the the bargain bin all stars versus the you know the high

investment all stars or however we want to break it down but this year we're focusing for the

most part on just guys who are crushing it and this this time of year is always fun, like we talked

about last week, to kind of zoom out and talk about some of these premier names that we're not

talking about in June or in August, because that's like the more actionable shows. But these are

great to take a step back, smell the roses, look at all these guys,

and begin to formulate opinions on, is it legit, or at least just enjoy the ride of what we've

had so far. So pumped to get into it, man. How's it going out there? Yeah, it's good. I could use

the All-Star break. It'd be nice for a few days for mental health and not be checking box scores religiously.

And, you know, we talk about the war of attrition that fantasy baseball is and the grind of this.

So it's a welcome, a welcome break for me uh that's for sure um yeah the

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