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Pete and Cheev help us return from the break with a relegation draft.
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SPEAKER_00Just go. Just go. Just go. Welcome to Gambo Gamble Gamble Die. I am post photo shoot, mid-congestion, and I'm joined by uh Pilates Expert, Pilates White Belt. Where's your where do you fit in the uh hierarchy of um Pilates expertise now, Pete?
SPEAKER_02I would say I'm a beginner, and I often don't have my back straight when I'm when when she's instructing a class and there's three she's so each one of them has said this to me that I need to straighten my back. So um right now I'm in about my fifth session, I'd say. But my wife was like, I think we should probably go to intermediate. And I said, I think you should probably go to intermediate. But did you hear how Nicole was talking to me last time? Because it was straighten your back, straighten your back. You know, for some reason, this lady thinks I have the longest legs of anybody that's ever lived. I'm five foot eleven, like I'm a normal sized person, average, you might say. And uh somehow I have like legs that are just incomprehensible to her, and she's the only one out of the three that's that said this to me like multiple times, but I'm just like, dude, like they're not that long, like I don't know. Anyway, we to get to get back to it, we we have we a Pilates studio opened up like right down the street from us, so like a half a block away, which is great, and we have decided that we are going to spend all of our money going there. Um, and and they have reformers, and they started with four and now they already have six after one month. So um, so we get on there, it's fun, it's a great workout, and it's I spent about an hour. The only time this week was the first time anybody was like, Oh my god, it's only it's only 10:32. And I was like, Oh no, another half an hour of this craziness. But usually they don't say anything, and it just the time just flies by. I listen to whatever the silly 90s R and B music that's on the the radio, and uh it's great. And um yeah, yeah, all everybody in my class, because I'm always in the beginner classes so far, and hopefully forever. Um even if I get good at it, I think I still want to stay in the beginner's class because I don't know. I don't know that I'll ever yeah, anyway.
SPEAKER_00Um lifelong learner.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I only exercise once a week. And uh and I don't think I I I was gonna ask you if if that's you know the best way to do things.
SPEAKER_00I mean, anytime you stick with something is good. Once a is so different activities are different. I would say for the martial arts students, once a week is great maintenance. I have not, it's difficult for anyone to improve if they only go once a week. I mean, and some exercise is better than none exercise. It also depends if you supplement, like if you're active at work or you're walking around on your off days, if it is literally like I'm at my computer six days a week, I go to Pilates for one hour, you you you might see limited change.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah. I mean I I feel like I'm jacked, but I don't know that I actually I don't actually do any of that what you were just talking about, the walking around, and I'm often at my computer at work. Even though I work in an environment that's supposed to be partly in a computer, partly walking around and doing things. Like, I mean, we have like ladders to climb up, and like I mean, there's all sorts of actual activity, but for some reason, and and you also have heard me talk for multiple years now. You you know I'm not that smart, but somehow I have been relegated to the guy in front of the computer telling everyone what to do all the time, and it's just like what the like I would love to be outside moving around, but unfortunately that's not my role right now, and um uh so yeah, I just do basically that once a week. But I have a a full-on elliptical. You've you've stayed in that room, I think, right? Yeah, yeah. That's I mean that's a that's a serious we put a lot of we had it we had a much bigger house at the time and also had some money to play with and bought an elliptical that was way more expensive than we should have, and uh use it not as much as we should. But um anyway, yeah, I think I'm gonna start doing that again because now that I've said it on on record, I think that I have to.
SPEAKER_00So I mean, I know some people that they're like, you know, twice a week their exercise class or three times they're lifting, or six days a week they're at the gym. I think that's all great. For me, doing something more than once a week is like a big commitment of like time and energy and bandwidth. So to me is more like, all right, you have something that's once a week, maybe twice a week, and what's the supplement? So if it was like, yeah, once a week Pilates, but I try to do 20, 30 minutes of elliptical on the other days, then then I think you will like Pilates will probably be doing the work, but the elliptical will keep will keep your kind of like the the blood flowing and and the body active and and kind of like burn a few calories, get your body in that habit. So I like this plan.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think uh I think the the my favorite part of the Pilates is just I am horribly inflexible, horribly. Like I it's it's been a lifetime of like even when I was in middle school, high school, playing soccer, basketball, whatever, I remember thinking, I don't really need to stretch, this is a waste of my time. And as I've gotten older and I've gotten more and more rigid, and you know, and also have a very um what's the word for if you if your joints go the other way? The hyper extend. Oh, hypermobility. Yeah, my my wife is hypermobile. Ah for whatever reason, of course, I had to marry somebody that's hypermobile, and she's like, ha ha ha, you can't stretch at all. You're you know, you can't sit crisscross applesauce and I like all that stuff. I'm just like completely useless. Um, so the fact that she's hypermobile and the fact that I'm absolutely the opposite, hypomobile, whatever it is. Like yeah, I I am absolutely um inflexible. So Pilates, what the best part about it is that I feel like I've actually like moved some of these these, you know, my my body around in such a way that like it it might be correcting that a little bit. So uh if I can do that once a week and then also have some sort of 20 to 30 minute exercise routine every couple days or whatever, or every day, that would be I think I'd probably be I I wouldn't say jacked is is a pretty strong word here, but like you know, my beach I I'd have a beach body that I'd be proud of.
SPEAKER_00If you after you after you get your muscles warm on the elliptical, if you have the time and wherewithal to just do like a half dozen stretches, that I think would make a huge difference, especially if you have back pain or neck pain or shoulder pain, that little like mobility.
SPEAKER_02All of it all the time.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And now were you I have a I have a few more follow-up questions because we don't like if it's just kids in class, I rush through stretching. It's more like to give them good habits, not like they actually need to limber up. Yeah, yeah. Now, anyone who's growing or they're going through puberty or whatever else, those kids are all stiff. So were you flexible as a kid so you didn't need it and you just had bad habits, or have you always been like stiff?
SPEAKER_02Uh I've always had bad habits and I've always been stiff. I don't know. Um, no, no, no. But no, it's true. Like, you know.
SPEAKER_00It's I mean, in there are certain skills, I think, as a teenager that I was really at my peak. Like, probably for jumping in my late teens. Maybe even at maybe not even like after high school.
SPEAKER_02Now you play basketball. Could you could you touch the rim?
SPEAKER_00I could uh at my peak, yeah. Not quite the rim, but the the like orange diagonal. Okay. Um, because I was pretty good jumper, but and yeah, maybe compared to my peers is more, but I know how much I've uh I've dropped off. I think there's times in my late 20s, maybe even early 30s, where there's certain like still high uh athletic potential. Maybe that's just because there's like some more discipline, or my body is fully developed. But yeah, to your point, I think having some of those habits, I mean, it's like teaching adults anything is way different than than teaching kids. They're just sort of like a sponge.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00So the people people at basketball now who don't have their footwork down is like so tough for them to get it right. And there's some stuff I know from basketball camp, but there's other stuff that just because I'm doing Subak Do all the time, I am like in the habit of um, I don't know, I my my body is used to learning new new sequences and habits.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I I and whereas like sometimes in Pilates, she'll tell me to lift my chest up and I'll lift my back up. And I just have no because it it's all just this, you know, it's all just this thing where you're like uncomfortable in a on a little moving thing and somebody's yelling at you to do things, and you're like, you know, but to your point, it's it's just not it's just not what I, you know, like yeah, it's it's confusing. It's confusing because you're like just trying to uh I'm a I'm also a people pleaser, so I'm like, okay, whatever she's telling me to do, I have to do it, and it's the wrong thing, and then it's like, oh my god.
SPEAKER_00So this is like like maybe only tangentially related, but anytime I do a self-defense class, and I think it's ridiculous to come in and like an hour or less one time do any kind of self-defense lesson. So I'll try to point to other things that people are doing, and I'll say, if anybody is playing a sport or doing yoga or like in your body, yeah, this is great for self-defense, just in terms of like having some awareness about yourself, having any kind of like control or balance. Because I also think of self-defense sometimes like what if you slip and fall or something's gonna hit you. Do you like do you have any like reflexes? Um would you like to pivot to the FPL aspect of this podcast?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't know that there's any way for us to segue this correctly after. Um yeah, I got something for you. Listen to this. Segway, segue, what do you what do you got?
SPEAKER_00You hear that? Yeah, that's your segue. This is a uh what is this? Oh, this is from Portland, Maine. This is from Lone Pine.
SPEAKER_02Is it a beer? Are you drinking a beer? Yeah, I'm off at pod time.
SPEAKER_00Photo shoot done. Drinking commence. This is Alan's coffee breakfast stout.
SPEAKER_02Nice. It's a breakfast beer. That's that's perfect. I'm drinking my second cup of coffee, which is why I'm charged.
SPEAKER_00Uh okay, so we're in the middle of like three weeks off. There's all this like relegation madness happening, sort of centered around Spurs, but in general, uh, because Pat is not here, of course we have to do a draft. So just go over. I mean, so we're only drafting from the four relegation teams, which I think are Spurs, West Ham, Burnley, and Wolves. And we're going for two players at each position. Did I have that right?
SPEAKER_02Two players at each position, which is gonna be challenging. Even the goalkeepers we were talking about this before we we started recording, but even the goalkeepers are a question mark for if you're going for two out of four teams, and two of the teams have injured goalkeepers that are still playing. One has a hernia, like, and it's he's he comes back in every once in a while just to fix things.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Vicario's allegedly gonna be back for the first game after this break. Although he did have Sergio, they have a new manager. This is insane. This is I mean, we're definitely doing this track, but whoever's idea this was, this is totally insane and not thought out.
SPEAKER_02I think it was your idea.
SPEAKER_00Great job. Good job, Chief.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I don't know if you're trying to deflect that, but the um, yeah, no, no, it's it's yeah, this is insanity, but it's yeah, it even if we added the other two teams that are could potentially be relegated, because I I honestly, and if you look at the schedules of these four teams, like the wolves have the best schedule, and they're also have the least amount of points, right? Like, so totally it's gonna be very interesting what happens here, and all the teams have very good schedules, except for Burnley. I think Burnley has MCI, has uh Man City, Villa, and Arsenal. So they're they're they're pretty much uh cooked, but um yeah, the Wolves have nothing but other relegation level teams, which is pretty crazy, and Sunderland and Brighton and Fallham. Whatever. Um so yeah, let's do it. Let's go. But what I I think what we should do here also is for funsies you can't pick. We'll do we'll do the first person who picks gets one pick, and then the other person gets two picks, but you can't pick from the same category. So I can't like for example, if you get first pick, and I don't know how we're gonna figure that out. If you get first pick, you get one pick, but then if I get second pick, I can't pick two midfielders.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And then if I get first pick, do I pick fourth and fifth? Are we always gonna do in pairs?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, do two, two. We'll do two. Okay. Um, how are we how are we gonna figure out who gets first pick? Uh let's see. How about wife's birthday? If you're within three months, you get first pick.
SPEAKER_00Go. I'm gonna guess when your wife's birthday is. Yeah. If you're within three months, you get it. Uh let me think. I think this was in the first half of the year. Was it recently or early March? I'm gonna say March 10th.
SPEAKER_02Why that was so stupid. Of course, yeah. I mean it's April, but it's it's fine. I like I wouldn't have brought it up if it wasn't so close that I'm thinking about presents, but yeah, go ahead. You want to say you want to see if you can do closer for Kathy's? No, no, no, you got it. You got it. No, there's no way I can do closer for Kathy's. I'm guessing in 365 days. I have no idea. All right, November 12th.
SPEAKER_00No, end of July. July 12th.
unknownDamn it.
SPEAKER_00That was almost three months. Okay, so I have first pick.
SPEAKER_02You have first pick.
SPEAKER_00Crap on me. I guess I'm gonna go Slanky and not feel good about it. Slanky. Was that the right? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know any of the picks are in this insane format.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, me neither. It's it's gonna be bad. This is this is gonna go horribly wrong. If if if I have a full team for any of the weeks, I'll be fine. I'll be happy with myself. Um, I was talking to Moffat about this right before we started talking, because I was like, oh my god, the Zerby. I was like, the whole world wants me to pick Richarlison, so I'm gonna have to, I'm just gonna have to do it.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02I can't I can't not do it, unfortunately. Uh, even though even though I have been watching James uh Brazee's son's team, uh who's beat who's winning our league right now, and he's had Richarlison on his team for a few weeks in a row, and I'm like, this is a bad choice, buddy. Like, you know, as I as I'm slowly catching up and hoping to God I can catch up to him. I was also thinking, like, oh my goodness, like, wow. Richarlison's like me three years ago, thinking like I I found the found the secret. Um uh let me go uh I'm gonna go Jose Sa also. Yeah. Because I think that's probably the most important piece of this.
SPEAKER_00Similarly, I don't care about goalkeepers, but I think there's uh limited availability. So give me Dubravka.
SPEAKER_02That is the only other good option.
SPEAKER_00This is more of a hard pick than a head pick, but give me Somerville.
SPEAKER_02Okay, Somerville. Copy. Alright, I'm gonna go with um I'm gonna go with Hugo Bueno on the Wolves. And then I'm gonna go with Bowen. Yeah, good pick. As a forward H Bueno. I'll tell you what, there's two Buenos on the Wolves defense. I'm not sure if they're brothers or not, but it's all Bueno. Very good, very good. I really I really want to get both of them, but I'm like, uh I don't know if Ignatio plays every game, so I don't have many uh attackers on my big board.
SPEAKER_00So give me an Archie Gray. Archie Gray.
SPEAKER_02And is Archie Gray the guy that looks like he's about 15?
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That's awesome. Dude, that guy, I saw his picture. I was like, oh my god, this guy.
SPEAKER_00And this might be a stretch, but give me Mad uh Mads Hermanson. Give me the give me the goalkeeper.
SPEAKER_02Alright. I'm gonna get I'm gonna go with Burnley Anthony as a midfielder. Okay, and I have both my forwards, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_00And this is a fun draft.
SPEAKER_02The Spurs, the Spurs, man. Like, what defender do you want in the Spurs? Is like the the ultimate question here.
SPEAKER_00Well, who and who even's gonna play 90 minutes?
SPEAKER_02Exactly. Nobody ever. Uh you know what? Screw it. I'm gonna go Donzo anyway. Is that a bad that's terrible anyway? What I'm going donzo. I said Donzo, I'm going donzo. I like the name. I like I I really I I actually wrote Van Devan Van Deven and then crossed him out because I was like, that his his hold on. I I was looking at his his stats are just absolutely insane right now. Like, if you look at his stats, Mickey Van Deven is so bad, has been so bad for so long right now. Check this out. I was like, I was checking uh I was hold on, sorry, delay, delay, delay. Um Mickey Van Deven is a point negative point seven form.
SPEAKER_03What?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, negative point seven form. So his last his last games are oh wait, you could have picked him. Well, this is me talking you out of that pick if if that was an option for you. Uh his last games were NFO, he got one point, Liverpool he got zero points, and Crystal Palace he got negative three, and then Fulham and Arsenal two in front of that got zero. He's just been he's just been like comically bad. So go ahead. He's a really good player, I think, but has been rough. Go ahead. Your turn.
SPEAKER_00Does anyone on Wolves get DEF CONs?
SPEAKER_02I should have researched this. Bueno was good on my actual team. Like I had Bueno for a while because uh when there was a double game week, I had Bueno and Mane.
SPEAKER_00So give me Esteve. And I can't I can't pick another defender, so give me uh Mane for Wolves up top.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you already have Gray and Solanke. Gray's a midfielder, I thought. Oh, Gray is a midfielder, right? Sorry. Uh Mane. And so two left, and I'm gonna go with Austin? No? Is it Austin or Kinski? It's gonna play more. Austin. I go I'll go with Austin.
SPEAKER_00for the Spurs deep uh goalie and um I had to pick a midfielder and that would be you know what SR nice nice I like that poll yeah yep I don't like I don't like Tottenham at all and I like I just think that but wait oh never mind go ahead I don't want to say anything it's your last pick it's exciting I need to pick a defender yeah I kind of I would like a wolves defender but they don't seem to score any points so give me um mavrapanos from West Ham Maveros yeah you we had talked about wolves have the easiest schedule but yeah I only have one wolver yes I think I well I have Jose sa but I feel good this is successful to me in that uh I don't have any of the Spurs defense I I kind of wish I went double bueno even though the other bueno doesn't play all the time but two buenos on the same team on the wolves with the best schedule this should have been like we bueno yeah thank you thank you I could go on forever about this but yeah we got there thank you thank you um uh yeah this is gonna be rough uh but yeah standard standard FPL points on the end of the season oh and stakes we talked about stakes yeah stakes so you had said you really wanted to play we have the World Cup coming up this summer sort of after the Premier League season ends and you really like those blue US men's jerseys but you thought was too high stakes it is way too high a stake um since I haven't won any of these contests I would just like I'm only saying that because I really really want to win it's not because I'm giving up or anything I just it pisses me off that like and we were close on the last one even though I had already very close conceded but uh and you know now I'm a soccer chump in Discord and that's no fun.
SPEAKER_02So we're still playing for a a US men's soccer jersey but these are gonna be uh homemade so we so we stay on budget um and I I'm really excited actually to make it you know so that's that's a win-win really for me I either get to wear a cool shirt or I get to uh you know make a cool shirt now uh how much input does the winner have like do you still want a blue one can I get one with like an eagle on it I say none no I mean look look I think it should be something that you should make to that would make the other person proud to wear I don't think I don't think there's any sort of truly believe artistically it should be as high a quality as you could make it okay with whatever will make it the highest of quality if it's like trying to replicate the actual jersey or just making something that's very American but also not sort of you know whatever lame I think we should put 100% of our effort into it into making the coolest thing for the other person even sucking in the loss and and and you know appreciating the fact that we tried our best but at the same time not taking our spite out on this shirt that we're then giving somebody um I think that's the most important thing. I think that like yeah this this these stakes are it's it's important to make the best shirt something somebody would be proud to wear you know at a bar wearing the shirt or just sitting at home wearing it watching the World Cup if we have the streaming services to watch it. And so they have to very clearly be a a uh yeah there should be a this should definitely be a US men's this isn't just national this isn't just soccer this is national pride okay you know like this is this is important I was born on the 4th of July I don't know if you know that or anybody knows that I was born on this country's birthday my birthday was about 200 years after the country was born. So you're a true patriot everybody else I'm a true patriot I have issues with all sorts of politicians and I just don't talk on record about it but I would my pride in the country is is is unwavering and uh my ability my creative creative my my ability to creatively express my yes I I want to make this I I don't want to make this shirt I want to wear the shirt I don't know I don't know what I want anymore but I I need to win something and I will but I will gladly put a hundred percent effort into making a shirt if I have to excellent excellent okay so we so we have I'm not sure what I'm shooting I don't know what I'm excited like I might just make a shirt for myself now that I'm now that I'm also good you can make it and then if you win you get two and if you lose you have to give up your baby.
SPEAKER_00That's just some legit stakes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah well yeah I don't know if I'd give you the first shirt I made or the second shirt because I mean honestly if you're making two shirts then like maybe that first one was like well it wasn't good enough I'm gonna give that away but I don't think I want to do that either. I think I'd be like I have to give the good one away you know it's it's tough but let's just focus on winning here.
SPEAKER_01That's all right that's that's when we get there.
SPEAKER_02Yeah yeah all right let's go to let's look good go to the league of re let's go to the league of recap the other um the other thing I was gonna ask you is can you can you tell me anything that's going on with Spurs and their manager uh no they just picked up De Zerby I have no idea like he's gonna be here for five years and like they're gonna stay up and it's all gonna be great now this was the missing piece look the missing piece is Richarlison like you as an average fan should know this that that Richarlison regardless of whether or not a smoke bomb gets thrown every once in a while and and like maybe he also injures himself every year for half of the season like he is the guy you want he's the kind of crazy you want on your team if you're running into a potential disaster he's the guy that you want if you're building a stadium and or you have a too nice of a stadium whatever the situation is like if you can't get relegated you want him on your team i i bel I truly believe that now whether I want him on my fantasy team is a totally different thing because he's that kind of crazy that you're like well so but DeSerby I I don't know I don't know like he's a good coach but with eight games left seven games left like do you I don't know it what you were saying makes a lot of sense to me is that like is he gonna go to the championship league if they lose like I don't think so that's what I'm saying yeah yeah I I would think he'd jump ship like any smart potentially you know but also the other thing is this they have good managers all the damn time and Tottenham is a disaster above the management level like somehow yeah like above the coach level somehow they are and I always use this example the of the the Washington commanders like they're just their their ownership is or their ownership group is just a disaster and they can't win because of them and they should be able to look in the mirror and say like wait a second we're the problem here we've had Thomas Frank yeah I mean it's awful it's awful and could potentially be like well maybe he just was doing the wrong thing but who knows like they didn't work with them either like like clearly clearly that ended in a disaster yeah it no totally there there's something wrong with leadership or ownership all the coaches have the same complaints yeah you like and then on a player level you have a bunch of players that have just like given up hope or forgotten but how to win and all your talent is good they're a mess. They look so good at the beginning of this year. I was like I I was like sneaky top four Tottenham showing up you know like and all of a sudden they just fell apart completely and and and maybe deserve is enough for some of those players to to sort of get back into it.
SPEAKER_00But maybe that's the whole reason and then they're gonna get Pachetino next year is that what what I heard I I'm sure that I'm sure they want potch back but if if I was Poch I would hold out for so much money.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah yeah well I mean or I guess I guess I I guess not money you you hold out for all the perks right he doesn't need to get paid but like you you put in all of the you make the most favorable ridiculous uh contract in your favor because like F you Spurs I I feel so bad for like I I don't know why but I work with like three fans of the Spurs and I'm always like sorry like I'm sorry about like your life because like I I don't first off I'm such a fair weather fan that I don't even know what it feels like to be dealing with a team like I I I I quit on the Orioles many years ago and I I feel terrible about it but I like I like going to the game I like going to the games every once in a while but like otherwise I'm just like eh baseball whatever uh ravens I'm just spoiled by it so I you know and otherwise whatever like but I don't understand why anybody would be a fan of a team that's like six thousand miles away or whatever three thousand miles away like and and isn't good. I just don't understand what's the point of that like why would I want that in my life?
SPEAKER_00Well I'll tell you the other thing the Arsenal fan I have in my life I uh maybe it's different in the UK but the Arsenal fan I have in my life is like I just doesn't even feel good to like like whatever the whatever three steps past kicking them when they're down is like it's just just feels sad and wrong.
SPEAKER_02Yeah yeah well I I I think that's different about like well Arsenal's different because they have this like they have this like the Patriots man it's like the like what Pat like Pat it just drives me crazy to hear him complain about the Patriots it's like what the you know like shut up you're fine your team's great like you have so many like rings it's crazy and just if you don't get a ring you do you think the whole season's lost it's like yeah I Arsenal fans are just annoying to me because it's like well your team is great and you have all the money a good coach and you know whatever.
SPEAKER_00Do you think they will be do you think they will be less annoying if they finally win the league?
SPEAKER_02Yes. I think they'll maybe shut up for five minutes and then probably start complaining about like all the all the free agents they're gonna have for next season that they're gonna be gone and then then it'll be annoying like oh how are we going to fill this hole and blah blah blah and then I'll have to listen to that for freaking ever and like and then you know one day our tetra will quit or I don't know like it's yeah they're gonna be annoying for life. Like they're all on the on like the the UK fans I hear from that's what they say is like you think that uh if they finally win something they were like five minutes of peace five minutes of peace is is is that's all we can get that's fine that's all we got you know like if if there's no five minutes of peace then it's like just more annoying uh what can we ever win like you know like all we can ever uh accomplish from that group fan group is five minutes of peace uh uh I think you I I fear I fear you may be right yeah I mean like at least we could pray for five minutes apiece maybe I don't have any other um you know dogs have you were what you were uh you were gonna get into the La Liga recap sorry oh la Liga recap I think you should do it because uh you're better at this and uh actually Pat's the best at this but yeah I think I think uh I'm gonna focus mostly on myself and uh the fact that I have a chance at at doing something this year I've already admonished admonished is that the word anyway I've already uh spoken ill of my of the guy I'm chasing so you know I really have nothing else to add I don't think to this whole thing I'd like to laugh at Pat for being a tenth I've usually am in that spot so the kid is still on top although he had a rough week and now uh Simon Amos Simon Saints is only 11 points back this feels like and and so are you you're both only 11 points back from the kid. Are you am I in third on your on your thing? Yeah yeah why am I in third not in second anyway go ahead maybe this is arsenal problems go interesting um because I'm in third on mine too I was just like maybe it's just third because I'm anyway um I don't know how that's work it works out and but I don't like how close you and Sully are behind me either.
SPEAKER_00Maybe the kid is finally falling off and I see Simon has only he used his free hit did he use his free hit last week but he still has uh his other three chips you only have your second free hit left so that's a little bit how we look for the chips we're we're getting to well people can still wild card and everything else but we're I think we're inching towards the part of the season where the differentials really matter in the mini league if you're gonna catch someone. Yeah so then Sully's in fourth he's ahead of me I feel like I keep ticking along but I have not made any progress on anyone and me and Sully have used the same ships Sully has done a bunch of transfers he's done some of the most transfers in the league like he's done 41 and the kid has only done 29 you have done 35 same as me gotcha sixth is ice cold chillers looks like didn't did not use a free hit in the first half of the season has only used a free hit in the second half of the season uh and then Rappy Do XXX is in seventh also never used uh triple captain in the first half of the season hasn't used any second half triple but is still in seventh place on uh 1814 points then is Moffitt the younger then is Briz Brizee into the top ten holy Briz has wild card it has been written wildcarded and triple captained uh has excellent team value if this site can be believed which it probably cannot here's Moffitt down in 10th has free hit two left that's it so you and Moffitt have the same one chip remaining he's uh I know he's been miserable in the Discord but I I I haven't followed closely enough to understand precisely what's going if if things have really been going badly or he's just frustrated or both I think I think it's both I think uh I think he's giving well I'm not like giving giving up is is is uh what's the word I don't know what the word is for that but I think he's uh he's he's he said he was gonna have some fun with the last by the end of the year so we'll see how much fun he has uh then we have Nevins in 11th and it starts to we start to drop off we got the robot there who still has all their second half chips the ghost robot I should say here's Ian Crowell who's only used one chip all season Cunningham's down in 18th Cunningham hold on am I reading these chips right Cunningham only has his uh bench boost left interesting he's used as triple captain two but not as triple captain one not as free hit one so he just has bench boost two left yeah then a lot of these here we here's a Matt Scanlon 23rd hasn't used any chips and I don't know is anyone else down here I don't recognize here's a lot of chips used in 33rd here's someone who's only made eight transfers all season Bobby Godfried is a is a ghost team zero transfers but he is still head of Patrick Pringle uh Jason Bullett and Anton. What's Anton doing had a bad week still his team value his team value is still crazy like what what is I don't know who's running this thing but his team value is insane 102.9 listen I'm not the right person for Anton so so like please come take this responsibility from me I cannot be trusted no you know Anton's compared to everyone else down in the bottom half of the table Anton's team value really stands out it's great transfer I'm doing it wrong okay so Pete you have a chance to win the league like walk me through when when Pat got you into this game did you ever believe you would be here or did you think you'd be here sooner um I thought that uh my progress in in life and also fantasy things is slow and I don't see necessarily where I grow and how I've gotten better.
SPEAKER_02I just do after a certain time it doesn't doesn't make sense to me either uh so maybe this is just a lucky year maybe I've gotten better at this I'm not sure I am happy to be where I'm at because I was struggling to get the top 10 for the last four years straight and that was kind of like it was getting to a point where I was like maybe I'm just not ever going to be good at this um but what I've learned is there's secret players that show up every once in a while like Harry Wilson for example this year is a big is a big one and knowing the Harry Wilson's of the world you also have to be very careful to have the Hollands of the world and there is a right now I'm too wide I'm too deep like my team is very stretched out and I also have a lot of money in the bank so maybe I need to figure that out part of it and I'm kind of worried about what I got going on right now. I mean the prevailing wisdom is especially once you used your bench boost there's no need to have 14 good players right you need 12 basically yes and I have 14 15 so yeah I need to I need to drop some people but I also so you uh um I had to give you some credit for this because I didn't realize 34 was going to be a a blank game week and I saw on Discord that you put up that thing that 34 is going to be a blank game week which makes sense and realize that I can't just use my free hit on game week 31 like I was planning on doing uh so I took two four-point hits back-to-back weeks just to get my team ready or capable for the blank game week that happened on the 31st which is last week and therefore still have my free hit for the 34th week but in doing so had to keep all my Man City assets as well as Raya so everything's a little stretched right now but I've survived this the problem is I only have one transfer still and I have to somehow get back to a situation where I am making you know make making myself capable uh for the end of the year sort of uh catch up game um without any chips so I need to start downloading some really some players to get I don't even yeah like Holland is a great example of do you get rid of Holland and grab Palmer now like like where where the problem is I my value is is high enough right now that I don't know that money is a thing that I have to worry about.
SPEAKER_00And the premiums unless I mean if you somehow really like Palmer or Sala or uh who's the forward that that they have in is Salah gonna go out with a bang? Yeah I'm not I'm not sure what happened but uh does not seem to be working at Liverpool at this time. Who's or Isak Isak is the other like premium it's more like you pay up for a bunch of defenders you know maybe Esak is not going to play for the rest of the year.
SPEAKER_02Yeah so then like these are the these are the expensive players that you would like save your money for yeah I just I this and Sala's injured he's got a 50% chance of playing Esak's got a 50% chance of playing yeah I guess if you go Bruno Sokka Semenyo uh Palmer or something like that you could have a pretty beefy midfield if you believe in all those guys but there's so many good midfielders so many budget midfielders even like an Anderson on Forrest is like steady eddy right it's four points every week five weight and then he's gonna score every once in a while like yeah it's it's a it's yeah um um I I think that I've been I've been playing very stressfully free this year like feeling like good like everything's kind of just working like I I've had like enough on my bench to cover all the players that like in the past that would have driven me crazy like for some reason I've I've magically come out of like a couple weeks this year in the last like couple months actually just been like oh well that guy is on my bench and he had a good week like last week I had Harry Wilson as my my captain. I think he played in one of the last games on Sunday if I'm not mistaken and I I just was sitting there watching and it's like well this is gonna make or break my week because I don't have very much else going on and I should have captain Fernandez and and then Harry Wilson scores a goal and I was like well there you go I'm good back to good.
SPEAKER_00So yeah so is playing fast and loose or are playing uh loose and stress free the key like not not stressing about when this blank week is and just kind of like it has been the key but I don't think I can I don't I don't think it's sustainable.
SPEAKER_02And uh as we get closer to the end of the year I'm starting to get a little bit more nervous. Tighten up now I don't know what I was doing before and I'm not sure what I'm doing tomorrow. So we'll see what happens like it's gonna be uh it's gonna it's gonna be a real it it could all fall apart tomorrow and uh maybe that's what I just have to keep in mind.
SPEAKER_00You know anyway what do you what's your plans for what do you you gotta catch you gotta well yeah I don't know so I'm gonna do what I think is someday I got to share the psychotic spreadsheet that I work off of. But I think I'm gonna do the kind of like very uh plan that has been discussed for quite a while of I'm in a wild card coming out of this break. I don't have anything else in the in the bank I'm gonna try to uh bench boost in 33 free hit in 44 and then hopefully I've made up some points there but if other people are doing the same thing like I'm not sure this wild card's gonna get me much leverage I you know I'm not gonna do anything risky for the bench boost I don't think a ton of people are gonna free hit in 34 so that's so you can bench I think you can bench boost next week I got wild card next week but your team you have you have all your you've you've put all your arsenal players on the bench you think I should bench boost next week and what wild card 33 since you already have well I mean it look I I also have I I'm having a good year we'll say that but like I I trust you more than I trust myself honestly but I mean right now that you right now that you have four people on the bench that can are gonna play next week most likely right so this would be bench boosting with Fulham away Liverpool and Bournemouth away to Arsenal so that's not my preference yeah I gotcha for a bench boost. I was just thinking of all players that are will be playing is you have a team that has a a full 15 players that are gonna play this year this week yeah I'm gonna I'm gonna get greedy and try to get some doublers with oh you did three transfers last week okay okay yeah I did not I did not so where I got I got screwed up a couple weeks back I got talked into going for Buemo instead of doing a Semenyo hokey kokie which I I think was maybe a the right process but that was the wrong decision. So yeah but to answer your question I think I'll tick along like for me to stay in the top five top ten in layer is like quite reasonable but I don't take enough swings to ever win the league and I think that's how these last so like some people will fall away and I'll just kind of like keep ticking along but I don't I don't see myself overtaking all four of you I have it because Sully is because Sully is good at taking swings. Yeah yeah both the kid and Simon seem like dialed in which is quite annoying but what what am I gonna do?
SPEAKER_02We we have we have a chance we you and you and I both and it's not but the gamble gamble gamble die league which has always been a little bit more competitive than the league league the top player is rock dog town um and he only has 891 points which it would be nice to be a see this is what I do and I get too excited and then I just fail and miserable and you know next thing you know I'm drawing a t-shirt so I don't maybe I should maybe I should shut my face and uh yeah anyway there's there's a chance at gamble gamble gamble dial league which is crazy to think like every year I'm like why do I even look over at the gamble gamble dial league because I'm freaking 50th so this year it's it's kind of nice to be um yeah looking at that as a chance I put uh yeah I I usually don't look over there but yeah uh Mew and Sully are all in the top six so I'm sixth but um yeah usually Gamble Gamble Gamble die is much more competitive.
SPEAKER_00I put I put my zombie team in that league how about that zombie team went for my zombie team matched my real team last week on the back of I have no idea what Captain Sala Vice Captain Palmer wasn't there double double uh forest defense zombie team Evansen off the bench fascinating cheever yeah see Vandovan you got Vandovan hey man start of the season oh that's right you haven't changed anybody all season that's that's insanely good for wow wow I didn't I wasn't thinking what a zombie team actually was that's that's uh that's that's that's a very impressive actually yes set and forget literally forgot so what would if you so some of the weeks are pretty bad if you go back to uh if you scroll back on that team to game week 29 now van had a minus three so that's not great but Captain Salah for 18 tart had Tarx in that team Palmer's in that team wait what did you say game week 19 29 29 I mean it's just it's just sort of uh lucky or not but 67 points from a zombie team seems pretty good yeah it's not bad solid is yeah yeah this the Salah the Salah perma captain makes it a little rough Palmer Vice also hurts well Palmer's coming back though I think that like uh well's could it could be an interesting pick for the rest of the year and Salah Salah could I mean I don't know Liverpool scored what five goals a couple weeks ago like it's not it's not impossible to think that he could have like a serious serious game or two left in him for Liverpool.
SPEAKER_02I appreciate your perpetual optimism was there anything else I was trying to look if we had any list I'm gonna look I'm gonna look briefly for listener questions but might not have anything else I might have to go start working on t-shirt designs there's gonna be a very oh there's a new question what is that well retorted um yeah I don't know I I think this is this is I'll tell you what if we have all eight players playing in one week I think that's a pretty big win for us that that counts put put put another uh put another star on the t-shirt yeah yep yep yep I hate the fact that I picked Charles at first i i wish i i wish i could take that back i yeah love hate love hate but bowen i was looking at this bowen is a good bowen is a good forward uh i mean historically in fpl even if it's not been now anthony is someone no one would have on their real team but he he's a fantasy asset SARS fantasy asset bueno I like as a defender i Spurs any Spurs player is random who's your and who's so but you have the uh who's Donzo you're gonna play for now that I think about it you have double Spurs defense huh I don't know how that's gonna go for it no I have went off wolves sorry I'm counting I'm counting the goalkeeper as like like if there's if there's a goal scored or if there's a clean sheet yeah like well if out of all four of these teams the only person I think that has the only team that has a chance in any of the like yeah I don't know I like uh I like the wolves chances just on their their fixture difficulty like they're they're and and and honestly I have no idea what the Tottenham's gonna do and I have no idea what West Ham's gonna do. Like they're two teams that don't make any sense to me. They shouldn't be in this situation and they're changing everything all the time and Bowen two years ago was like the greatest thing that's ever happened and now is completely the only thing that that they have and still can't do anything with like it doesn't make none of it makes any sense.
SPEAKER_00You think your boy Rich so how about your boy Richie is he gonna is he gonna perform for you or is he focused on the World Cup?
SPEAKER_02I think he's I I don't know I don't know I don't know like I remember early this year thinking like he was gonna have a great year and uh thinking like I I put in Discord early early this year that he was gonna have a great year because Thomas Frank was a very mental health like uh pro-mental health kind of profess uh and then Thomas Frank isn't there anymore. Um I think yeah retardison I also noticed on Instagram because I follow him on Instagram even though most of the things he says is in Portuguese which I can't read uh I I noticed that he had a baby he had a baby also so I was like well that also helps you with your mental health I think that sometimes like the idea of like okay this is more than just me being crazy I've got to keep it together for this kid and make as much money as I can while I can um and so I thought for all those reasons he would play at least most of this year with the World Cup coming I thought that maybe that would keep him together a little bit too and uh it hasn't happened and Tottenham's completely fallen apart.
SPEAKER_00Maybe it's his fault who knows I don't like it I don't know yeah like when it comes now I I'm fascinated by this guy I like fascinated that yeah it doesn't make sense to me but it is so uh is he is Richie the the like smartest player mixed but he's certainly playing hard like if if you just need so I can see a new coach coming in like we need people to just play hard so we can stay up right right he's your guy right yeah he's your guy but he also only plays like 15 minutes a game so who knows what like he comes like do you put him in at the beginning of the game to give yourself a boost or do you hold on to him just in case you need a boost like that's put him in at halftime every game.
SPEAKER_02I think they should just do that honestly I I I I would if I was the Zerby and honestly I wouldn't have ever signed up for that job if I was the Zerby like we I'm fascinated I'm sure this is on Couchier somewhere what the odds are that De Zerby is coaching Spurs next fall zero to five percent chance of that like I don't know I don't know I I I don't trust the the Spurs leadership to keep him there. Totally but they gave him a five year contract I thought whatever yeah yeah I mean that that that would be if if I trusted the fact that it he would be there for five years that's a great idea like who knows who knows what riders he has on that contract that are like going to be completely looked over by the lawyers on the Spurs management team like like whatever provisions he made to be that coach the Spurs management group is like currently hand handing over to their lawyers to say how can we screw this all up and make him crazy and then leave like what what in the world can we do to screw this guy over so that he leaves and we continue to fail like how can we do that that's what they're that's what they're working their lawyers are working on that right now as we speak uh whatever time it is over there. They're they're they're looking at a large pile of paperwork that's like all provisions that he's made for this five year contract. It's laughable if you think about it it's like what five years like they haven't had a manager last a year.
SPEAKER_00Like they're so yeah so I mean so though that's I'm sure that's that makes him look good right because if they decide they want to move on quickly they have to I'm sure there's a big payout right like oh you're still paying the next four years or whatever. And if yeah they go down to if they stay up or go down or whatever else he can be like hey I committed for five years this isn't on me. Yeah and yeah on the other hand if he gets a better job offer or doesn't want to coach in the championship I haven't seen anything from Spurs that you like makes you feel like oh you should be loyal to them if the players like I think it's unprofessional that the guys are not trying hard but I also get it if you mean we've all worked somewhere that sucks.
SPEAKER_02Yeah oh no yeah I ever and not not only that but like we've all worked somewhere that sucked that we had a bad manager that we didn't believe in the team like it's it's all of those things for them like and and and not only that but like what I do I could do till I'm 90. What they do they can do till they're 32 or whatever. And yeah it's it's what's the point of like what's the point of putting all my effort into something that's just gonna hurt me and and ruin my chances for having like a longer yeah it's like the only person and to go back to Richard is the only person that's mentally unstable enough to actually like to actually do something you know anyway um that's all we could talk I could talk about Richard like I could get to go back and forth on this conversation and bring Charlton into it a thousand different ways. But yeah I I just I'm fascinated by the end of this and I'm I'm really excited about this and also could potentially get to make a t-shirt out of this whole thing. You know it's great. If I just you're gonna make a Richardson USA jersey I love this no no I wouldn't do I wouldn't do that to the USA maybe maybe you know maybe his number in the bottom right corner of something you know hide it somewhere anyway.
SPEAKER_00All right well it's been good we yeah we should do this you know every month or so at least I know I was looking I was looking at the notes it has been has been quite a while but my my schedule is opening up a little bit so we'll try to um we'll try to get back on and do some more shenanigans and we gotta track we gotta track this uh draft bet to the end of the season.
SPEAKER_02And also my schedule might change in June which doesn't matter at all because this is over in May. Anyway screw it uh my schedule's gonna be screwy as it always has been I went to bed at three o'clock last this morning so you know you're yeah my schedule's all over the place right now and not only that but it's like yeah I get off at one o'clock in the morning so it's hard it's hard to go straight to sleep after that too yeah you know yeah so anyway all right I'm gonna stop record very good just leave the call no that's not the way we do it stop record