Is Joe Lo Truglio’s Weeks-long Fantasy Draft Brilliant or the Worst Thing Ever?

Joe Lo Truglio came on the show to defend a decision that has turned a fantasy football draft into a multi-week endurance event. Eight hours per pick.

Fourteen teams. Eight hours each. The math is not kind.

As commissioner of the league, Lo Truglio has an argument, and it is mostly about the roster of people he is trying to herd.

"We got players all over the place, different time zones," he said. Nobody wants a 90-second clock, which Rich conceded is fair. The real choice was between four hours and eight, and Lo Truglio went long because he was worried about people on opposite coasts sleeping through their picks.

Rich offered the obvious precedent. Roger Goodell manages the same problem for the actual NFL draft.

The complication here is the membership. This league is full of working actors, which produces delays no ordinary commissioner has to absorb.

One year Paul Rudd was shooting Ant-Man in London and, by Rich's account, was screwing up the whole damn thing. Jon Hamm has been making prestige television, a defense he once deployed in an email when Rich complained about him holding up the league.

He was, to be fair, making prestige television.

Hamm is also apparently the member most in favor of everyone slowing down, which Lo Truglio has decided to embrace rather than fight. His new team avatar is the Hamm meme from Friends & Neighbors, and the team is named Dream Team.

"Everyone's asleep while I win," Lo Truglio said. "Literally, people are sleeping while I choose to win."

Rich is picking tenth, and defending a title, and not showing his cards.

The bigger news was how the order got set, because it involved a 10-year-old. Rich wrote every name on a poker chip and had his son Eli draw them, which is how T.J. ended up with the first overall pick.

The outsourcing was deliberate. Rich has randomized these things before and landed first or second at least two or three times, which he correctly identified as a bad look.

Where he put the chips is the problem. Eli plays soccer, so the family reached for the bag that holds his goalkeeper gloves.

Which raises a scenario Rich thought through in real time. A stray poker chip travels to a youth tournament, a 10-year-old goalkeeper is found holding it, and someone has to explain that these are his father's.

"There's going to be a problem at the striker tournament down in Mission Viejo," Lo Truglio said.

Rich had the right word for it. That is a to-do. A big to-do.

And somebody is going to get a what for.