Becoming a Best Ball Bro: Leaning Into the Hype?

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

So Rich, I was doing a live stream on the YouTube channel yesterday. I did two milli-drafts in a row. The first draft went really well. It was actually the third milli-draft in a row that I had done live stream wise that was just awesome. And then I'm like, yeah, sure, I'll go with another draft. And as I'm drafting, I sneeze, okay? So as I sneeze, you know, like phlegm starts to formulate my nose and stuff like that, because I'm a human being, I'm not an alien. And I can't like talk as well, it's just kind of like gross sounding and feeling. So I'm like, all right, guys, give me one second, I'm going to go blow my nose. Okay? I have a short SM7B microphone, which to those who are in the podcasting space, you know that that's a good microphone.

You know, it's just a neighborhood thing. Kids are playing, all that kind of stuff. Nothing gets picked up on this mic. Like I could even walk away or, you know, walk two or three feet from the microphone, it would not pick up my voice. Okay. But yesterday, because my bathroom is right behind this wall, yesterday I get up and I go and I blow my nose, and lo and behold, the Shure 7M... S-B, or 7B, picks up a freaking nose trumpet. And everyone on that stream heard it, and all I gotta say is, guys, I'm a dad, deal with it. I'm JJ, and last year I tried my hardest to become a best ball bro. I drafted over 500 teams, I talked to some of the most successful best ball players in existence, and I admittedly had mixed results. So this year, I'm gonna chase that title once again. My plan is to max enter DraftKings Millionaire Maker, and I'm going to document all of it, while talking to the brightest best ball minds on the planet.

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Rich Ryan (4:13)

Doing good, man. The summer of bill continues. There's nothing that can stop Jacori Kroski merit. Unstoppable force.

JJ Zachariason (4:22)

Dude, I'll tell you what. I will never forget when it was maybe June, like late June into early July, and David Kitchen messages me and he's like, hey, go check your exposure on DraftKings. I hadn't done it, right? And I drafted probably, I don't know, 100 to 120 teams at that time. And I go and I look and he's like, all right, take a screenshot. So I took a screenshot because we were just comparing exposure. This is what we do. And I had like 12 percent JCM at the time. This is bad. Again, this is like late June, early July. And he's like, what is going on right now? Why do you have 12 percent Jacori Kroski merit? And I'm like, I don't know, man. I mean, like I've done studies and looked at the fact that like these day three rookie running backs, when they have good production, it's usually coming from more ambiguous backfield situations. And I don't like Bryan Robinson. I have been very, very vocal about the anti-Bryan Robinson take. So of course, I'm going to draft Austin Eckler, and I'm going to draft Jacori Kroski merit. I never, ever expected this to happen.