- [Gary] I think you used your hand too much,
by the way.
You put your hand like four times an episode.
(DRock laughs)
I'm right, right? Yeah, thanks Ty.
(indistinct chatter)
("Monday To Monday" by Saba)
Saba, I've been telling you.
Yo, so, this is the collapse from the high, right?
Great weekend with the guys.
I hate that it's over.
Now, I'm super sad.
You know, you build up, literally,
months for this moment.
All the prepping, all the excitement,
all the hype and then boom.
It's over.
Show, that's a good shot.
This is why I know I'm going to win the league.
Because 90% of people's sneakers are dorky.
Bunch of fucking dorks.
- [DRock] What's going on here?
- Just getting my sheets ready.
This is Nate.
I love him. Great, Office of the CEO.
Terrible at fantasy baseball player.
- Terrible. - He's actually, he's leaving.
- I'm leaving the league because I'm so terrible at it.
I mean, are you ready for this?
I just want to be right, you know?
- [DRock] Yeah.
- And something that I also know is right is leaving this league.
- [DRock] Why?
- I just think that they can get a lot more serious player that
will benefit them for the long term.
- [DRock] And that makes sense, right?
- I mean, you've listened to the interviews.
This is a pretty serious league.
- Basically, you're a GM of a baseball team and you try to
compile a team that will do the best basically across the
10 different categories that are picked out.
- Batting average, home runs, runs,
RBIs, stolen bases, wins, strikeouts,
WHIP, ERA and saves.
- The compilation of all the stats throughout the year are
tracked on a website and between trades and deals you make your
team better either this year or for the future.
And yeah, eventually, there's a winner on top
with the best stats.
- Tyler!
- [Tyler] What're you doing? What're you doing?
- [Gary] The fuck's going on here?
- [Tyler] Don't be fucking my shit up.
- [Gary] Ty, this is taking too long.
Honestly, on a serious note.
There's like all 800 sheets, where're the pitchers?
- These are pitchers.
- [Gary] Gary Vaynerchuk, I've been in the league forever.
From the beginning, from all the beginnings.
I am the patriarch of everything.
(DRock laughs) I am, guys.
Fantasy draft is one of my
favorite weekends of the year, right?
Along with the first weekend of football
and (laughs) that.
You know, for me outside of the family time I have at the end of
the year and in late August this is the time of year I most look
forward to with March Madness,
the NFL draft and fantasy baseball.
- [AJ] Chop, chop.
- [Gary] Why don't we do some sort of new category,
like on base percentage?
(crosstalk)
What's the thing you wanted wins replaced by?
I think we can convince-- - No, you can't.
- Little Lou to go to 500
and then if you go to 500 it's 10,000.
It sounds good.
(group laughter)
It's also $7,000 to the winner.
Juices are getting going now.
Yep.
(group yelling)
- [Tyler] This is different type of scenario actually 'cause the
rules are not the same day as the draft.
Rules are typically a pretty big conversation.
Two hours and they're typically at the start of draft and you
come all high energy.
AJ's all jazzed up.
Drew's just kind of in the corner hanging out.
Grant, he's always on it.
Rules, he's a big rules discussion guy.
(group laughter)
That saps like the first two hours.
All of a sudden it's 11:30 and nothings...
(laughs)
- What was the question? (group laughter)
- [Gary] Let's just do it.
Now, what that means is a guy like Tapia who I have in my farm
right now, who stays in my farm, next year--
- [Man] Yes!
- If gets 99at-bats this year, right.
- [AJ] Basically, Eric Judge and Jose Veras are lost causes.
- Right, but everybody else.
- [Christopher] Because the past couple years has seen a huge
escalation in salary prices for players,
I drafted Clayton Kershaw last year for $64,
AJ kept him at $64.
You know we have Mike Trout in the pool.
Golster's back in the pool.
Toovie's back in the pool.
These guys are gonna go for $50+ which if you play in a fantasy
baseball league you're like that's fucking crazy
but that's like the norm.
That's the floor, so we're gonna
have these guys going for $50, $60.
- Who do I think it's gonna win the league this year?
That's a good question.
I think it's gonna be really
tight between Gary and Staats.
- I think I'm going to win it.
- I'm gonna win this league.
- [DRock] Parting words for Nate and Tyler?
- Look, Nate and Tyler are, you know,
two nice young men who
over-deliver on many parts of
their lives and under-deliver in fantasy baseball.
(group laughter)
- [DRock] Who's the one player you want to get the most?
- The one player I want to get
the most is Paul Goldschmidt, first baseman.
Has anybody else said that?
- [DRock] No. I don't think I've heard--
- You're not supposed to tell me, DRock.
Jesus.
So easy. Keep going. (group laughter)
Best part, by the way, best part of the whole film.
- [DRock] You have anything for DailyVee?
- Yeah, DailyVee so we did this a year ago.
DRock had no fucking clue what was going on with fantasy
baseball and we put up episode 30,
we created no context.
All of you were like, "What the fuck?"
- [David] Sold. $18.
- That's the man I wanted.
Bang!
Seriously, I wanted him bad.
That's it. I'm pumped.
Let's go.
Hopefully, this will be a better episode and I can't wait for the
one hour version of the film to come out later this month or,
yeah, later this month.
April, good. Later this month.
I'm Gary Vaynerchuk and this is the 2017 fantasy baseball draft.
("4AM" by Justin Stone)
(indistinct chatter)
Understood.
But by Tuesday I'll be normal?
One minute away.
Yeah, understood.
Alright, here we go.
(group laughter)
- So I'm only gonna throw out championship players to help
everyone so you know when I throw it out,
this is a guy who has rings.
So first, John Lester.
(light applause)
- [Man 2] 36.
- [David] 36, going once. Going twice--
- [Man 3] 37.
- [David] Wait, I don't know who won that one.
- 39.
(several groans)
- [David] 39 going once, going twice.
- [Marcus] 40. - 40? I think it was Marcus.
Marcus, 40, going once.
- [Man 4] One more. 41 for Brandon.
- [Gary] Always.
- 41 for Brandon, going once.
Going twice, sold (bangs table).
First player sold.
- [Gary] Who is it? - John Lester.
- [Man 5] For? - [David] For 41.
- [Gary] Alright, Brandon you have to go
in the interview room.
It's gonna be a little longer this year, guys.
Three years ago.
- [David] Going once! Going twice, 23.
23, going once. 23, Justin going twice, sold.
- [Gary] Wow, that is way cheap. Good job, Just.
("4AM" by Justin Stone)
- [David] Some folks are fading a little bit.
The pressure's getting to some folks.
I don't know if you guys have noticed yet.
- [Gary] Why is everybody moving so much?
(crosstalk)
Come on! Fuck!
I'm literally drinking rosé out of a milk cup because
I'm doing such a bad job.
I literally want to drown my sorrows.
I'm doing a terrible job.
I fucked up.
I didn't draft anybody I wanted.
It's a mess.
Besides Chapman I didn't get a single guy I even wanted.
I'm stunned about what's going on out there.
- [David] But we're only halfway through.
I think the folks that are able to press through these next 45
to an hour is going to make or break a lot of folks.
Even if you have a terrible draft,
up until now, think you can salvage a lot of your season by
finding some gems.
Doing your homework, trying to get a little lucky, to be honest.
And then making sure you're playing kind of like what the
market environment is for the price.
So if folks get gun shy or
they get a little desperate for a position.
You know there's a lack of quality third baseman left,
people can start getting desperate and overpay.
You have to be disciplined.
("Good Yute" by Beno Maslow)
- Over all, doing okay.
Not my greatest draft ever but not my worst
which is always a good thing.
Didn't like getting Schwarbert at 30 but I thought I put
together a few other solid pieces in my outfield and
I think I have some good pieces so I can get ready to dump
everything come five hours from now.
- I've been actually pretty focused for the
first few hours of the draft.
Alan's really been taking charge,
taking the lead which is what I wanted him to.
He's found the league very interesting.
There's some interesting dynamics that he's not very
accustomed to in his other leagues but I like the squad.
I think that the future of
Good Guys, Bad Dudes, former team name of our,
me and Tyler's legacy,
will be carried on very well.
- Man, this is such a wild draft.
People are loaded with guys.
- [David] Chris Tillman.
- I got competitive. Here we go, let's do it.
(group laughter)
- [David] Going once, to Gary, going twice, sold.
$1. - Let's go.
(group applause)
Early favorites are Bobby and Drew.
- The second half, wasn't as fun as the first one.
Losing Alex Reyes hurt quite a bit but I'm feeling very good
about my team. It was very interesting auction.
Can't explain it.
It's hard to say how it's different from last ones.
Just different, weird pricing.
Weird last hour bids.
AJ did a crazy strategy and it'll be interesting to see how
that works out.
But still, best day of the year.
Great draft.
- Draft finished really strong.
Got the minor leaguer guys that I wanted and got all of the
players that I wanted late.
Had to overpay a bit, but I think it'll work
out in the long term.
I'm much better than everyone else thinks.
I'm gonna win.
- The surprise row to wire pick is AJ over Tom.
- [Gary] We did great.
I think I have a real shot of winning.
Me and AJ just made another big trade.
I got Carlos Beltran.
We love that.
I think I'm in the mix. I rallied a little bit.
I feel decent. I feel decent.
I think I have a shot.
Best time, best guys.
All that stuff. Great weekend.
We'll see what happens but
I think if I had to pick, it's me.
It's me.
We'll see what happens.
- [DRock] Do you really love it? - I really love it.
- [DRock] Why?
- It's a great tradition. It's escapism.
It's something I really care about that doesn't matter.
Kinda like the Jets, you know?
So I love that.
And I love getting, you know, Matt Sitomer,
Brant Creyack, even Matt who works at Vayner is in L.A.
Brant who worked at Wine Library 15 years.
Even Brandon, my best friend.
Justin Novello, my brother-in-law but I don't even
see him in the office that often.
Krup and then all of AJ's friends.
Marinek and Tom and DeRosa,
I just don't get to hang out with them.
You know?
I don't get to hang out with them so...
- [DRock] And you love the sport of it or
do you like being around them?
- Well, I love being around them but I love the competition.
I want to win.
I love fantasy baseball, I've been playing it for 25 years.
- [DRock] Have you won?
- Yeah, I've won a ton.
Remember all those trophies in my office?
I've won like seven times in old leagues but this is now the
super league, where we combined two leagues and I haven't won in
the first four years which is shocking.
I'm baffled.
So, I have to win this year.
Hey guys, so that is the episode of DailyVee of our fantasy
baseball draft but shhh, don't tell anybody,
full film version coming in a couple of months.
And guess who's gonna be leading by the time it comes out?
(clicks tongue) This guy.
("4AM" by Justin Stone)