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Week 2 came and went and I'm not sure what the hell happened. A bunch of upsets, lots of terrible pitching, and Brian and Aleks somehow remain undefeated. What to make of it all? Occam's Razor suggests that randomness is at play here, but the emergence of Brian simply illustrates that we have a lot of parity, which suggests a very competitive year for us.

We discussed spring break, WBC and the start of the MLB season including the weird Netflix opening day thing. Otherwise, we jump into reviewing the extended Week 1. It starts off with the huge upset, but is it really an upset if "David" is pretty good? We end with a brief overview of Week 2 and a super quick glance at Team Runs Scored after the initial 6-8 games.

The greatest day of the year commenced and joy was had. And then we picked players and it all came crashing down. Some teams did well, others spent the entire 2 min for their pick. But it was a grand ol' time picking our teams for the 2026 season. We also took a sneak peak at the 1st week for our predictions.

We return, fresh and ready to talk Chicago Beef keepers and the upcoming 2026 season. While Aleks isn't returning, we will miss his presence and insightful thoughts. We blast into the offseason, ABS upcoming impact on 2026 in MLB, and spend the majority of the time outlining everyone's pending decisions for keepers prior to 3/14's draft, according to Jay, The Happiest Day of the Year. Sorry we went long, we're still warming up.

Another season is over, another champion. Chicago Beef League in seemingly the 27th year of operation. Congrats to John and his Cambodia Flying Canucks in winning their 8th championship. Makes me realize he's good at this thing. Or a witch. Yea, a witch. One of those two things. Anyway, we discuss the incredibly close matchup and briefly ramble on learnings/takeaways plus a moment on 2026 favorites (not Suneel).

We're leaving together But still it's farewell And maybe we'll come back To Earth, who can tell? I guess there is no one to blame We're leaving ground (leaving ground) Will things ever be the same again Its the final countdown 4 teams went in, 2 came out. Alas, one matchup was so close it came down to the OBP of the last batter of the NYY v BOS matchup. The other matchup wasn't as close but still leads us to a finals where we all think there's some sort of Winnetka Wicken thing going on, and basically David v Goliath. Go David!

Minor technical issue....re-posted! In another devastating blow to the league, John and Mike won their matchups (ok, fine they were byes). In more important news, Josh UPSETS Jay. Jay's performance was absolutely baffling and he will be reeling for weeks to come in the offseason. Ken beats Suneel with a stronger pitching side. Suneel really should be more careful with Ohtani, he deserves better...Anyway, onto the Semis! We feature our almost always perfect picks and THE BONES have spoken. Listen in to hear the fate of the teams in the Semis!

Week 22 is a wrap, where Battle of Evermore sneakily wins in Gap (vs Jr) and Cambodia Flying Canucks beats Mexikens to win the bat. Aleks is calling for an investigation of the Winnetka Wiccan coalition as there can't possibly be any other explanation for this season's turnout. Obvs. In other news, Mike wins the pick'em in a triumphant comeback over Chip. Onto the Playoffs, where Aleks is inexplicably supporting Suneel (over Ken) and Jr over Jay. Sigh. Let the games begin!

Its almost time for the playoffs. Week 20 is in the books and only one more until stuff gets super-duper real. No fairies were killed in the making here. Chip even makes a fairly coherent statement!

Week 20 wraps and we only have 2 weeks left before the playoffs. The Brute Squad is finally eliminated from the playoff race and that leaves us with 7 teams for 6 spots. The top 4 are separating themselves and vying for the top spot from Phoenix Rises. All the favorites won, so the picks were easy, but Team Sunicle, with the loss to Battle of Evermore, is the 7th team on the outside looking in. We review week 21 matchups and take a peek at how week 22 looks too.

Week 19 is a wrap and Chip (incorrectly) calls Aleks' season over. Somehow Mike storms back with the picks, now tied atop with Chip. We wrapped with week 20 picks (and 21 by mistake) and nonsense for it all to finally end.

I hope you buckle up, we have so much to share with you. We lead off by recapping the highlights of the MLB trade deadline (we disagree on the Dodgers), we discuss the incredibly close week 18, and recap our baseball trip to see games in SF (Giants) & Sacramento (As) with Chip's son Matty. Fun time all around.

We recap the results of week 17 and gloss over Ferni Willow's DESTRUCTION over Trustee Rhino....yea, no one cares about that. We mostly discuss the 4 obvious playoff-bound teams (everyone with me! Phoenix Rises, The Mexikens, Battle of Evermore and Cambodia Flying Canucks) and bicker on how Chip should trade a vet keeper. It was riveting. Not really.

I wrote something snazzy, snappy, and altogether classy here and the Fates decided to overwrite it all with a Refresh. Oh well. We recap week 16 and its short week, and look ahead to the assuredly eventful week 17 matchups. OK look, we did but it wasn't as comical as we hoped. We're doing our best! Enjoy!

We jump right in and immediately recap week 15 (UPSET central!). And because of the MLB All-Star game, week 16 is a short and sweet week. We make predictions and spend a few minutes on the All-Star game, what we liked, didn't, etc. We close with Aleks' battle against his enemies in his backyard, putting MouseBlocker finally to use.