Hey everybody, welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast. It is Sunday night, August 8th. I am Scott Jensen. Join, as always on Sunday nights by Jeff Erickson. If you can please rate or view the podcast, that would help us out a lot. We do appreciate that. We are sponsored by WinBet. We also very much appreciate them for that. They've been sponsoring an exclusive sponsor, all the Rotowire podcast right now.

So that is a very cool sponsorship there.

Jeff, we got,

I think we have eight weeks left in the season. It feels like it's, it's hurtling towards an end here, but it feels like we're at a point where a lot of stuff is going on. We got a lot of COVID stuff. we got a lot of pitchers that are getting pulled in the fourth inning.

It feels like these last eight weeks are going to be really tough to navigate fantasy-wise.

It's a grind. It's going to be a grind.

Yeah. We've got a lot of pitchers that are getting pulled in the fourth inning. It feels like these last eight weeks are going to be really tough to navigate fantasy-wise.

It's going to be a grind.

I'm looking forward to it in a lot of ways.

Yeah.

But especially if our A's and our Reds are still in the thick of things.

Now, you know, our A's are in more of a thick of things than the Reds, all the Reds are, you know, you know, Viva La Pirates. I mean, unfortunately, the Brewers get to face the Cubs and Pirates this week, but, you know, they get their turn at the Ferris wheel. You know, it's fun when your team plays well. And it makes these pennant races, these playoff races better. It's went over five, 10 games over 500 today, which is nice. They're nine and one against, nine and one against the pirates. So, you know, you can do the math on what they are against the rest of the world. But they got nine more games against the pirates left, including the last three games of the season. And it feels like every time I look up, they're up like nine0 in the third inning on the Pirates, too. It was quite a series. And the A's took care of business. They swept Texas, which you should do, but sweeping a series is not always often easy. But Minnesota, beaten Houston three out of four for us was really nice. Yeah, yeah, it was handy, you know, I blame, you know, I credit slash blame

myself depending on whose perspective you're using. I use McCullors and DFS today and, who, he was

awful. Uh, like really seemed to just struggle the whole way through. Framber got hit hard early

and his, his outing against them. Yeah. It's like and and meanwhile mcclars was crushing

against the dodgers earlier this week so i don't know that that's the thing sometimes you look at

an opponent and you think okay they're going to lay down no minnesota's not laying down they

they split two games to the reds earlier in the week uh of course that was courtesy of another

blown leap by the reds because that's what they do.

But every lead is a carnival.

But it's okay.

They're playing hard.

...