Episode #5
S2E5: The Best Waiver Pickups Of Our Careers
Recorded a few days late, which gave Charley time to walk through a Las Vegas casino full of Eagles fans leaving a sports bar after a loss. He describes it as a top ten sports memory. Then we go back through the best waiver pickups of our careers. Sean picked up Victor Cruz at 12:55 on the Sunday of Week 1 in 2011 and got 1,536 yards out of it. He picked up Darius Slayton on Christmas morning in 2023, won the semifinal on an 80-yard garbage time touchdown, and did not speak to his brother again until the new year. And in 2013 he picked up a quarterback that his opponent had dropped four days earlier, then beat him with four touchdowns and a helicopter dive. Also: a guy who drafted six quarterbacks and two tight ends on autodraft is still alive in our 18-team guillotine league and has outlasted three people with decades of experience. Jaxon Smith-Njigba is on pace with Marshall Faulk and Marvin Harrison. Charley has Brock Bowers in all three of his leagues and has renamed every team accordingly. And Sean has thoughts about people who use therapy language without ever having been to therapy. Misery Loves Fantasy is a fantasy football podcast for people who take it far too seriously and get nothing back. Two friends of 25 years, no rankings, no advice, just grievance. New episodes weekly. CHAPTERS 00:00 Recording late 02:40 Guillotine: the autodrafters are still winning 09:00 One of the worst games I've ever watched 13:35 Walking past the Eagles fans 21:50 An undrafted rookie might start for Tampa 30:00 Only three players have started a season this hot 38:20 The best waiver pickups of our careers 51:50 Upon This Brock 56:40 Regret draft picks 1:05:30 The Dad Zone
