Too Many Treats

In this week's P.O. Box:

This is one of my favorite times of the year.

Lauren and I both have birthdays within a span of a few days, there’s Father’s Day, and 4th of July is on tap. I checked our calendar the other day and realized that I don’t have a free weekend until late August.

It is always tricky staying dialed with healthy eating during this stretch, though.

I type this, not coincidentally, after having enjoyed one too many Mai Tais (and a truly phenomenal poo poo platter) at a Tiki bar on Wednesday night for Lauren’s birthday.

And that’s before mentioning the string of three straight days with birthday cake. By the way—leftover chocolate cake with vanilla and coconut frosting as a Creami mix-in melted my face off the other night.

I try not to beat myself up too much, but it is hard to maintain positive eating habits when all of the fun events happen in such a compressed window.

I guess I’ll just need to bang out a few more pull-ups at the playground…something I admitted to doing on this week’s Swolecast…

🤓 FANTASY LIFE: 5 Insights After Hundreds of Best Ball Drafts. Put together a little overview on the best ball landscape and strategy tips after finding my footing in drafts.

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☕️ BEST BALL BREAKFAST: A Best Ball Value Hound & Pat Mayo’s Heel Turn. A very fun episode of BBB with a feisty Pat Mayo batting cleanup:

🎉 BEST BALL BASH + RANDOMIZER: Carpool Karaoke & Best Ball Drafting. This week on the Bash we got introduced to a young bartender from Chicago and then Greg showed off his pipes on The Randomizer.

☣️ LOLZ: The State Wants You To Pay $0.50 On Every Bet. We check in on the Illinois sports betting tax situation, FanDuel thinking about acquiring Kalshi, and the Karen Read trial.

⏰ OFF & ON THE CLOCK: The New Contest That Is Breaking Our Brains. We had a lot of fun going down the strategy rabbit hole for The Eliminator.

🚢 SHIP CHASING: A Wild Fantasy Draft Using Only NFL Head Coaches. This ended up being very fun.

💪 THE SWOLECAST: Our Most Ambitious Show Ever. We debuted a new format that involved me getting muted.

📈 ADP CHASING: Risers/Fallers & Round 1 Players To Fade. The fellas discuss the Dobbins/Harvey movements.

📺️ GUEST SPOT: BBM Drafting w/ Coachspeak Index. And some fun convos about our favorite hosts and comedians.

This week’s After Dark guest is TBD because we are running it Best Ball Bash style. Someone from the chat will win a spot to hop on and draft with me. See ya Saturday at 8pm et…

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☁️ Book #5 for June & July (35%): Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

My reading has slowed over the past week with so many things going on, but still chipping away at this here and there. I’m liking the Zeno and Konstance story lines the most so far, but excited to see how the Anna and Omeir stories collide.

I will say, I’m jealous of those of you who binged this, because it’s been a harder book to do a bunch of stop/starts with. It takes me awhile to refamiliarize myself with the characters and the various plot lines.

🐊 Book #4 for May (COMPLETED): Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner
🍌 Book #3 for April (COMPLETED): The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King by Rich Cohen
💉 Book #2 for March (FINISHED): Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe.
🐃 Book #1 for February (FINISHED): The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

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