Late-Round Perspectives: Scott Fish

JJ Zachariason (0:00)

Scott Fish is the president and founder of Fantasy Cares and the creator of the Scott Fish Bowl. He's won the Matthew Barry Game Changer Award, he was once named the FSGA's Humanitarian of the Year, and he was one of the Athletics Persons of the Year in 2018 He's a pretty decent guy.

These are his Late-Round Perspectives.

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I was hoping that you would be sitting in the famous white chair that I'm sitting in. Not that we've like shared the chair, but we have the exact same chair off of your recommendation, I don't know, like five or six years ago, probably at this point.

Scott Fish (1:26)

I feel like it's longer. I do have it here.

I don't know if you can-

JJ Zachariason (1:30)

There you go. There you go.

I lifted it up for people watching on YouTube. I love it.

Scott Fish (1:36)

Yeah.

JJ Zachariason (1:36)

Yeah. I feel like everyone in the fantasy industry, first off, seemingly everyone needs a computer chair. Yeah. But when they do, somehow you and I get tagged in tweets.

There's a conversation and then eventually it leads to one of us. It should just lead to you because you're the one who introduced the chair to me when it was really discounted and it's a great chair. But it was from Office Depot and I don't think it exists anymore.

Scott Fish (2:03)

No. I think this is the Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston thing. I think I may have found the chair first, but you're the one who made it famous.

JJ Zachariason (2:13)

That's hilarious. Yeah, that's hilarious.

Yeah. I mean, I'm in it literally because every time I see you on shows and listen to you on shows and stuff, I feel like you're always in a different location. I'm like stapled to this chair. This is the same spot that I'm in for every spot that I do pretty much. You're sometimes out on your back porch or just lounging somewhere, which you can do now because the weather there is not frigid cold.

Scott Fish (2:44)

The weather in Minnesota is great right now. Every time my wife is at work or downtown working instead of at home, I am on that deck out in the gorgeous weather just enjoying life, working from outside.

JJ Zachariason (2:58)

Yeah. Have you been traveling around and stuff for Scott Fish Bowl?

Scott Fish (3:02)

I have. The first weekend I went to Las Vegas for the event at Circa, kickoff event for the Fish Bowl a few weeks here. It was awesome. They did an awesome job there. Circa put us up on the big screens and did the drafting from the owner suite. It was one heck of a time drafting from pools and whatnot.

Then last weekend, I went to Denver where I had a great time out there. It was well done by Dave Kluge, put on a good show there and then a football guys, excuse me. Then I stayed in Colorado for a couple of extra days because I don't know if you've been to Colorado, but it's just gorgeous.

JJ Zachariason (3:40)

It's amazing.

I've only been out there once, but it's great. Yeah. Love it.

Scott Fish (3:44)

God. So beautiful. So beautiful. Then this weekend, I'm going to be doing the one here in Minnesota. After that, the final weekend, I am in LA on Saturday hanging out at that event. Then I red-eyed to Boston for our first ever attempted a Fantasy Cares Gala in Boston, the final drafts of SFB.

So it's going to be a fun next couple of weeks as well.

JJ Zachariason (4:12)

Yeah. And then right after that, we have the Fantasy Football Expo. I'm assuming you're going to the Expo this year?