Alright alright alright!

In a year that has been anything but ordinary, we’re pleased to bring you what has become an anchor to us all: it’s T&R 2020. We’re back, baby.

This season kicks off with a bang as we welcome two new league members, an additional flex spot, and a draft that is sure to be explosive.  Gentlemen, it’s time.

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for?  I am not throwing away my shot.  I am young, scrappy, and hungry, and I’m not throwing away my shot.  Dying is easy, young men.  Living is harder.

History has its eyes on you.  Rise up.

As for me, I want to be in the room where it happens.

Twelve Little Indians hoped to cross the Playoff line;  three went and choked themselves, and then there were nine.

Nine Little Indians, four of which secure;  five go to battle, yet only two shall endure.

Six Little Indians will make the final stand;  five will meet their folly by the lone victor’s hand.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

Too little, too late? We think not.  This one was a riot, and it represented a dramatic turning point within the league as the competition shifted back to divisional play.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll…cringe awkwardly in a few moments.  Worth the listen, because…

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

After a brief hiatus, T&R is back on track as we scrutinize ESPN rankings, matchups, and everything in between.  No one is safe from the critical mouthpiece of the great and powerful Pod, and it’s good to be back.

The drama builds as two teams face certain peril, while the podcast curse will surely finally catch up with another (you know who you are).

Injuries and byes have potmarked every line up, and Week 7 promises to be an ugly, bloody battle.

There’s no room for softness, not in the Pellwood League. No place for weakness. Only the hard and strong may call themselves Pellwoodians.

Only the hard.

Only the strong.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

With a bloody Week 5 in our rearview, most eyes are looking forward as the Week 6 byes and waiver wire drys (SIC) further ravage an already beat up board of players.

Last week’s surprises were a-plenty, as some managers emerged from their low-point depths to conquer with gusto, while still others folded like lawn chairs.

Week 6 promises only one certainty as King Squish sits on his mighty thrown, quietly pulling the strings as he nobly puppeteers our rankings into order. His wrath will fall upon only one: a lone manager will kneel at 1-5.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

A curse is a curse, of course of course,

and no one can shake off a curse of course.

That is, of course, unless the curse is a double neg-a-tive!

Go right to the source and test the curse.

We’ll interview you and endorse

your Week 5 match up, it’s sure to force

a season-ending-in-jur-reeeey!!!

*Takes a bow*

You’re doomed.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

The Squish battle rages, but the war has just begun.  Most teams are 1-2. A few are 2-1. And a lone 3-0 victor stands on his 3-week high hill, victorious for the moment, but a target on his back.

The waiver wire abounds in moves.  The trade count is stacking up.  The delicate tension of respectful comradery could break at any moment, likely to dissolve into the angry cesspool of bitter competition we all know and love.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

**Editor’s Note: This broadcast was intentionally withheld past its due date to avoid aiding and abetting the collusion discovered upon conducting the guest interview contained within.**

Too little, too late, but certainly likely to be the best episode of the season thus far, we present to you T&R Week 3.  The fellas are joined by current former steamroller and current future president, Charles Gaines, whose on-air disclosures of what is, at best, collusion, and, at worst, a total abuse of the T&R podium offered to him.  You dishonor the microphone, sir!

But I digress.  Put on your hindsight goggles and judge us accordingly as you enjoy this special episode of T&R.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

And here we go.

The season is upon us, and with it all of the unexpected twists and turns that can be..uh..expected..in such a competitive and savvy league.

Early front runners seek to hold on to their video game performances.  A few lack-luster scoreboards from week one motivate several managers to recover from their black eyes. The waiver wire heats up, and the trade banter begins.  Plus, the opinions of this podcast’s experts are called into question. It’s everything we know and love in the Pellwood league, plus a little extra.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.

We came, we saw, and we drafted.  The dust and ash of the draft battlefield (drattlefield?) continues to settle, and the echoing cries of the wounded and bleeding can still be faintly heard as surviving loved ones anxiously search the hellscape for any sign of…

Wow, sorry, that was a darker path of thinking than was probably necessary.

Or was it?

This is it.  THE episode.  You have been weighed, measured, and celebrated or scourged appropriately. The grades are in. Your timestamp of review can be found here:

Jared | 18:39
Michael | 23:04
Andy | 25:58
Brock | 29:23
Charles | 31:28
Chewie | 34:58
Pete | 37:29
Scott | 46:35
Ben | 48:56
Derrek | 52:24
Seth | 55:39
Chris | 59:43

The average time spent covering drafts is 3 minutes, 17 seconds per draft, with a high range of 9:06 (Pete’s) and 2:05 (Brock’s).  Read into that however you will.

The 2019 Draft Data supporting Seth’s conclusions (and a summary of his grades) can be found here.

It’s the greatest fantasy football league in the world, and THIS is its podcast.