Jeff Erickson
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Father of two awesome teenage girls, RotoWire's Senior Editor, host of RotoWire Fantasy Sports Today on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio (SiriusXM 87). NU '93.
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Your passing yards leaders today:
Joe Flacco - 306
Zach Wilson - 301
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MLB: "We're offering you 33 cents on the dollar."
MLBPA: "No. Not even close."
MLB: "What if we offer you a quarter, a nickel, and three pennies?"
Everyone: "MLBPA needs to compromise, MLB is making a good faith offer."
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You know how parking garages have signs to not leave your valuables in the car? Fun fact - it’s with good reason. We went back into Venetian one hour after checkout and came back to this. Laptops, suitcases, backpacks, all gone. Use the Bell Desk, kids.
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"We were all set to trade for relief pitching at the trade deadline but then our bullpen blew too many leads for it to matter, so we're standing pat."
- Reds front office
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Which teardown is more cynical - A's or Reds? The owners just won the CBA negotiations, the players paid the ransom, yet Castellini and Fischer shot the hostages anyhow. At least spare us the "... this was a baseball trade ..." nonsense.
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My least favorite type of player in fantasy football is the one that is not good enough to start for you, yet you're afraid to drop them. Antonio Gibson and D.J. Moore fit that description.
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Please welcome the new member of the Erickson family, Harley! The girls named him. We just brought him home from the shelter!
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The Reds' broadcast interviewed Andrew Abbott's parents during a standard "debut" segment, except that Abbott's folks were far more forthright than most. His dad said that he'd been nibbling too much that inning, and you'll see different going forward. Sure enough, we have.
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I can't believe I got played so badly by Nightengale/Heyman last night and thought that we were close. I'm such a fool.
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Just devastated to hear the news about my friend
@lawrmichaels
, who passed away today. Such a joy to be around. Did so much for fantasy sports and the people involved in it. I already miss him.
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Joey Votto's summer has brought me so much joy. It's remarkable how he reinvented himself as a hitter on the fly.
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Elly De La Cruz learning what his strike zone is, and what Clayton Kershaw's strike zone is:
(Pitches 2 & 3 were called strikes)
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Elly De La Cruz is up to 10 Ks in 18 plate appearances. I'm not suggesting drastic action should be taken by the Reds yet, but he's had some really tough plate appearances so far.
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Reds, Marlins & Diamondbacks all have a similar vibe right now. It's not looking great for any of them.
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Is there anything worse in fantasy free agent bidding than spending big to reacquire your own drop?
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The NFL had six teams on bye last week, including ATL & NOR, who are playing each other. Shouldn't they play each other Thursday night, instead of two teams that played on Sunday afternoon? NFL scheduling always confounds me.
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Imagine waiting 10 years to have the honor of voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame, and then submitting a blank ballot with your first entry. I just ... can't.
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@billbarnwell
But Bill, he took on all that risk! Sure, the NFL has a monopoly, a broken union and insane locked-in profits from tv money every year, but risk!
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Try to find something you love as much as baseball broadcasters love someone beating the shift.
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Just saw my first anti-gaming in California ad. It was interesting to see DraftKings and FanDuel called out in the ad, and for gambling addiction being cited as the reason. Interesting, because the ad was sponsored by the local casinos.
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I complain about broadcasts a lot, so here's one positive - I really like the ESPN graphic on MNF where they list the skill position players on the field pre-snap. It's unobtrusive yet informative.
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Initial projection for Shogo Akiyama on the
#Reds
- .298/.382/.478, 23 HR, 104 R, 73 RBI. He's a good player - just hope that his foot is fully healed by the time spring training roles around.
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I complain about broadcasters too often, so here's a positive tweet - I enjoy how consistently awesome Don Orsillo and Mark Grant are on Padres broadcasts. I'm not a Padres fan necessarily, but they frequently are my primary late-night watch because of the broadcast quality.
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I'm looking forward to joining the ESPN2 KBO broadcast tomorrow morning, roughly around 7:00 a.m. ET / 4:00 a.m PT. The KBO has been great for those of us in the fantasy sports community, and I'm excited to discuss that with
@PerezEd
and
@karlravechespn
!
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A quick note about
@lawrmichaels
from Jason Grey, who is no longer on Twitter, but he wanted me to share this:
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Nothing like hearing the tired old "this isn't fantasy football" from Tessitore & Witten. You realize who's watching at that point in the game?
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This has to be on the short list of best Super Bowls, no?
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Just got my first dose of the Modera vaccine, via CVS. Remarkably easy process.
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Every time a team wins on the first possession of overtime we see all these think-pieces on how to "fix" overtime. How about fixing the defense to stop a team on 3rd-and-10 one time?
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"We saw some bad pitching over the weekend, only eclipsed by bad hitting. We lost 2 of 3 to the Diamondbacks. But Tejay Antone Day? I like Tejay Antone Day."
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Congrats to
@wha1en
,
@JimCoventryNFL
@AlanSeslowsky
@ThePostingScout
@JBFantasySports
@ToddZola
@RealJRAnderson
@erik_halterman
- for the
@RotoWire
show on
@SiriusXMFantasy
!
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Neat:
"They bought the Cubs during a global financial meltdown, getting the club, Wrigley Field and a 25% stake in Comcast Sports Net (now known as NBC Sports Chicago) for a steal at $845 million. The team alone is now worth an estimated $3.2 billion, according to Forbes."
.
@PWSullivan
: Some believe the Cubs’ owners face a more dire forecast than most of their peers because of their investments in Wrigleyville, the Marquee Sports Network and the rooftops. Would they ultimately be forced to sell off high-priced players?
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This might have been the worst fantasy playoffs weekend I've ever encountered. So many elite guys having miserable games, ones that we have been able to rely upon all season. Injuries at the worst moment, too.
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Please don’t DM professional athletes, period, fantasy or otherwise.
Please stop DM’ing about your fantasy teams. I promise you, I don’t care.
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This Dodgers - Padres game is so on fire. The crowd there makes it feel as if there's a full house.
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Proud parent moment - that’s Ally serving to close out a set. She went on a run of 14 in a row for team. Meanwhile, Erin had a similar run earlier for the frosh/soph team to end a set. Friday was a great day for the Erickson girls!
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If you ever get into an argument with DaVante Adams, don't worry, he'll be quick to drop it.
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I think it’s been another good day to stay off Twitter dot com.
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Don't want Tatis swinging at a 3-0 pitch against a position player? Use a pitcher - you have a damn 28-man roster.
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WARNING: This is a perturbed
#HOF
vote tweet, for those that want to filter.
As far as I can tell, Michael Hunt hasn't covered baseball since 2014, yet still has a vote. How is that even possible?
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I hate, hate, hate the notion that if a fielder doesn't touch a ball, it can't be ruled an error. The pop-up dropping between Davidson and Andrus for the A's has to be assigned to the defense, and not to the pitcher. Maybe call it a team error?
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Where we started, and where we are now! Congrats to my eldest on her graduation!
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It turns out that Dave Roberts is still an October hero in Fenway.
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Rounders
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I like John Harbaugh as a coach, but he sure was a jerk to Melissa Stark on that interview.
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The Mets blowing a Jacob deGrom win is an "Opening Day" tradition like no other.
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Most of you don't want to hear this, but trading Betts is the right move. If Betts were any priority for the Red Sox, they would have signed him by now.
Most of you don’t want to hear this, but trading Betts is the right move. If Boston were any priority for him, he would have signed by now.
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Time to pay off the
#FFPieBet
- my girls enjoyed this way too much! Thanks to the
#Steelers
for shutting out Cooper Kupp and the
#Rams
.
@rotobuzzguy
@SiriusXMFantasy
@RotoWire
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I'm bummed that I don't get to see Tylor Megill tonight, but at least we get to see Jimmy Megill.
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I want to learn more about the prospects going to the Sox. Anyone have a 1:00 video with a 30-sec auto-play ad?
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Airlines change fees are just the worst thing ever. Why should
@united
get away with charging $200 per ticket to change a flight three months in advance? You're still flying their airline, and they'll be able to sell the ticket. What a ridiculous policy.
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The thing about TLR that ticks me off the most is that he's trying to make himself look better at the expense of his rookie player, especially with the whole "take sign" comment. Even if Mercedes missed a sign, keep that shit in-house.
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If Rob Manfred were still alive he wouldn't allow this.
BREAKING: The Los Angeles Angels have placed starter Lucas Giolito, relievers Matt Moore and Reynaldo López, and outfielders Hunter Renfroe and Randal Grichuk on waivers, sources tell ESPN. Huge potential playoff implications: All can be claimed by teams for free on Thursday.
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I'm excited to announced that tomorrow's
@RotoWire
MLB podcast will be with
@FantasyCentral1
! We'll discuss news of the day, early reactions to the season, Micah's late-night MLB threads, and what he's doing for
@Fantrax
and
@FantasyBallUni1
. Send us questions please!
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Ok, not that I'm really a candidate to drive a GMC truck let alone buy one, but between how obnoxious and omnipresent the "his-and-hers" commercial is, I will never ever buy one.
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I feel the Mets, including their broadcast booth, have taken crazy pills. Hoskins' crime yesterday was trying to break up a double play? I know that McNeil said he wasn't trying to turn it, but (a) it didn't appear that way to me, and (b) how is Hoskins supposed to know that?
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So the Bengals lost, badly. Liverpool lost. My DFS lineup was not great. Half of my Survivor entries did not survive.
But today was a really good day. One of the best days.
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Rumor has it that the A's offered Bob Melvin a four year, $1 million deal that was deferred over the course of 15 years.
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Maybe I'm a curmudgeon but I'd like to hear the Futures Game broadcasters talk about, you know, the game and the players in it.
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How are you going to beat Clay Link when you give him Mookie Betts at 1.8?
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If you weren't traded to San Diego this weekend, please raise your hand.
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How to drop 10 points and three-to-four spots in the your league's standings in less than an hour:
Start Tyler Chatwood.
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I'm listening to my mom talk about bird-watching right now - I have no egrets.
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Is it just me or is Jim Nantz better to listen to now that he's paired with Romo?
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Merry Christmas everyone! I'm grateful to be a part of this awesome fantasy sports community that enriches my spirit every day! Thank you for all that you for me and for
@RotoWire
!
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I’m not usually a food poster, but I had to post the Guinness Beef Stew from The Celt in Dublin last night. Delicious.
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When you see Statcast data like we have tonight from Oneill Cruz, imagine not wanting Statcast data. Having that our disposal enhances the game so much.
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When Mayock sent the latest letter with the $200K fine and the revocation of the guarantees in AB’s contract, he had to know this would happen, right? This had to be intentional.
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Nice job by the
#Cubs
to let their fans not get a chance to say goodbye to Bryant and Rizzo.
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"This is why you don't draft until after Week 16, when you know everyone that got hurt and all the breakouts that nobody expected."
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If you haven't heard the promos or heard us talk about it on-air or here on Twitter,
@RotoWire
is moving back to daytime radio during
@SiriusXMFantasy
's baseball slate, from noon-to-2:00 ET.
@wha1en
and I are so excited for this upcoming season!
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If I were to tweet picks from a
@TheNFBC
Draft Champions League I'm doing with
@claywlink
,
@RotoGut
,
@SethDaSportsMan
,
@RotoSurgeon
,
@JustinMasonFWFB
,
@steven_brunn
and many other great players that I've insulted by not mentioning, would that be something you'd be interested in?
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MLB is so mad at Angel Hernandez that they reflexively added three more games to Amir Garrett's suspension.
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Back home from Vegas after a whirlwind trip to draft in
@TheNFBC
Main Event today! Drive home was super-smooth. Looking forward to writing up the league/draft, and talking about it on
@SiriusXMFantasy
tomorrow! Big thanks to
@GregAmbrosius
@TomKessenich
and company!
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Ugh, the full Royce Lewis experience - homers in his first at-bat, leaves with a hamstring injury running the bases in his second time through the order.
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It’s been way too long. Best Thai place that’s not in Thailand. With
@Chris_Liss
and
@AlanSeslowsky
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I'm going on vacation tonight through next Monday and as part of that I'm also going to take a Twitter vacation - at least, I'm going to attempt to do so. Please direct all lineup and FA questions to
@Chris_Liss
, and all pun requests to
@ScottJenstad
.
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I still don't get why the Cardinals are trying to make Jordan Hicks a starting pitcher. He hasn't meaningfully worked in that role since 2017 and wasn't especially great at it. Now he's coming off of a 13-inning season, preceded by a zero-inning season. What am I missing?
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