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2nd Half Sleepers + Hungry for More, The Goose Queen! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 10/25
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momentJason's lifelong baseball fandom knows the goatee, rookie, and hat
The Arizona result turns the opening into the Fantasy Baseballers. An unlabeled host calls himself the true fan, while Jason's sarcastic lifelong-fan identity produces only the dude with the goatee, the rookie, the guy with the hat, and 'diving bags.' Mike is explicitly placed at the desk as the Fantasy Hitman who hated Philadelphia more than the Diamondbacks. Matthew Betz's reported day off gets a qualified Philadelphia-fan aside.
momentDrop It Like It's Hot audits the hidden waiver layer
The Drop It Like It's Hot cue sends listeners to inspect players released during normal waiver processing, then adds a second instruction: scroll upward and inspect players dropped before waivers ran, because those releases can be missed.
momentJason's three-dollar Taysom bid loses to 38
The Hungry for More intro graphic makes Jason cackle because he has just checked waivers. Directly prompted, he says his three-dollar bid for Taysom Hill lost to 38; expecting that he had badly mispriced the market, he opens all six bids and finds zero, zero, three, three, three, and three.
momentTennessee adds a third slice to the Wheel of Shame
The hosts compare the Titans' quarterback choice to their Wheel of Shame: one slice is Will Levis and another is Malik Willis. The possibility that both quarterbacks play reveals a third slice and earns the description 'truly banana ramas.'
momentAl Borland ties Jameson Williams at zero receptions
After Jameson Williams draws six targets without a catch, the hosts say he recorded as many receptions as Al Borland. They directly ask Al whether he managed at least three receptions that week, and the immediate reply is 'Not this week.'
momentA wedding-dress goose becomes the swan queen
A goose remains the bad fantasy outcome, so the hosts invent getting swaned as its positive opposite. An unidentified host then admits he thought a swan might be the same animal as a goose—just prettier, wearing a wedding dress, or serving as queen of the geese. The taxonomy adds mallards and a 'mailerd' pun that makes Jason fall over in his chair. Three unnamed Deucer's Alley voices score 100 percent on the species poll. Directly asked whether to hit the outro, Brooks instead calls for mailbag and later answers to Brooksie.
momentThe podcast holds a live stat-sheet development meeting
While checking target leaders, the hosts discover that their stat sheet lacks targets per game. The request grows from making a note into a live development meeting and a public promise that a button will convert all totals to per-game figures, prompting another unlabeled voice to ask, 'We are?'
summaryEpisode notes
The Arizona baseball result briefly converts the program into the Fantasy Baseballers. An unlabeled host calls himself the true fan, Jason is sarcastically introduced as a lifelong fan but can name only the dude with the goatee, the rookie, and the guy with the hat, and Mike is explicitly described as hating Philadelphia even more than the Diamondbacks did; Matthew Betz's reported day off receives a qualified Philadelphia-fan joke. A Drop It Like It's Hot cue instructs listeners to audit both ordinary waiver drops and players released before waivers process. The Hungry for More graphic then gets undercut when a directly prompted Jason says his three-dollar Taysom Hill bid lost to 38 even though the six bids were zero, zero, three, three, three, and three—the economy of their league. The Wheel of Shame becomes a model for Tennessee's quarterback possibilities, except the hypothetical wheel has a third outcome where both Will Levis and Malik Willis play. Jameson Williams's zero catches on six targets are compared with Al Borland; a direct Al prompt receives the answer 'Not this week.' The episode's dominant tangent begins with goose as a bad fantasy result and invents swan as its positive opposite. One unlabeled host asks whether swans and geese are the same animal, imagines a swan as a pretty goose or the queen of geese in a wedding dress, learns mallard sex differences, and hears the 'mailerd' pun that makes Jason fall over in his chair. Three unnamed people in Deucer's Alley unanimously knew the birds were distinct. Brooks is then directly asked whether to hit the outro, but his reply steers the runaway show into mailbag. Finally, the hosts discover their stat sheet lacks targets per game and conduct a live development meeting that publicly promises a button for converting totals to per-game numbers before another voice asks, 'We are?'
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