RotoGraphs Audio: The Sleeper and the Bust 6/27/13

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June 27, 2013

Episode 31
Today’s episode is a very special edition of The Sleeper and the Bust as it not only stars yours truly and features RotoGraphs editor Eno Sarris, but also ESPN’s Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst, the Talented Mr. Roto himself, Matthew Berry. We discuss his upcoming book Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports From the Guy Who’s Lived It available on July 16 and for pre-order now at FantasyLifeTheBook.com.

Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @mikepodhorzer or @enosarris on Twitter and tweet us any fantasy questions you have that we may answer on our next episode.

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Intro by DJ Sinton (no, contrary to popular belief, I do not moonlight as a rap star)

Approximately 36 min of joyous analysis.

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Mike Podhorzer is the founder of ProjectingX IQ, an advanced fantasy baseball analytics platform that transforms projection data and in-season performance signals into actionable intelligence. He is the 2015 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Baseball Writer of the Year and three-time Tout Wars champion. He is the author of the eBook Projecting X 2.0: How to Forecast Baseball Player Performance, which teaches you how to project players yourself. Follow Mike on X@MikePodhorzer and contact him via email.

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Scott
13 years ago

Ugh….the untalented mr. windbag? If I wanted to listen to this clown I’d still be subscribed to “the 06020” and believe in the never aptly-named Wandy Line. Please get better guests than this if you are going outside FG/RG. I listen to this podcast to AVOID “experts” like Matthew Berry.

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Dancing Homer
13 years ago

Man, I love the podcast, but the audio on this one was really scratchy. Had to stop at min 20 is b/c of the white noise and all the pops. Audio is typically really good, but this one had me cringing every time there was fuzzy background noises.

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Mike PodhorzerFanGraphs Staff
13 years ago
Reply to  Dancing Homer

Yeah, apologies for that. I’m not sure if it was something on Berry’s end, typical Skype issues, the fact we had 3 people on or what. But it shouldn’t be an issue again….hopefully!

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Dancing Homer
13 years ago
Reply to  Mike Podhorzer

If you keep recording them, I’ll keep listening! Thanks!

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Brian
13 years ago

Can’t wait for the book, Berry. Heard great things about it so far…I’ve already preordred my copy. Keep it up

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pmreddick
13 years ago

Great interview on both ends. I look forward to reading the book.

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