This Week In Fantasy: Randone Falls From The Rafters Known As Jim Cramer’s Good Graces & Other News

Magnets for drama and theatrics tend to exist in all avenues of life. And unless you’re new to the daily fantasy realm, you’re likely quite aware how prevalent in garnering attention some of the characters in this micro universe can be.

Comparable to the back-and-forth dynamics of WWE personality interaction, when it comes to public presence for many of these guys, all that’s missing are the high ropes to proverbially dive off of while trying to land some “oohs” and “ahhs”. But for Chris Randone, the days of Twitter tagging CNBC’s Jim Cramer have sadly come to a close, recently slipping the landing on one of his go-to moves and landing in the Blocked bin. This week in fantasy we’ll observe the latest Twitter miscue along with some of the other latest news from the fantasy sports landscape.

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When All Else Fails, Don’t Tag Jim Cramer On Twitter

There’s likely a fair share of people who miss Tommy G’s Twitter presence simply for the sake of shock value. The personas of constant attraction like unsightly freeway accidents, looking away remains indefinitely impossible when it comes to their antics slathered across social media. The boxing match that never was meant to be yet talked about to promising lengths (despite playing out in our heads with interchanging outcomes), Chris Randone and DraftCheat deescalated their roles in the daily fantasy sports content field in exchange for Twitter fingers. When reactions become your focal form of currency, striving to have yourself swept into the mentions of others makes for a steady workload.

It was since that elusive boxing match that Randone jumped ponds from the daily fantasy grind into the life of a day trader, advertising his latest investments and suggested stock maneuvers across Twitter. Somewhere in this transition, Randone shed the DFS industry-related Twitter tags and adapted to stock market savvy with the quickness. One prominent figure in providing stock market content is Jim Cramer of CNBC, best known as host of the station’s popular show Mad Money, and an apparent favorite of Randone’s to tag on Twitter presumably due to the shared similarity of their love for DFS and stonks (Cramer is also in promotions with DraftKings).

Fast-forward to yesterday: Randone reacts to an interview with DraftKings representative on CNBC…

When you have a live interview on CNBC it might be smart to announce something new, exciting or even an update. Any form of guidance. This is why Portnoy is superior to Draftkings C Level Execs….

— Chris Randone (@ChrisRandone) December 22, 2020

Get some personality $DKNG …. The dryness is tough to watch as an investor. No charisma.

— Chris Randone (@ChrisRandone) December 22, 2020

…and just hours later (when likely trying to tag Cramer), the discovery happens:

Bruh what? 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/yYwKWTiZJ6

— Chris Randone (@ChrisRandone) December 23, 2020

While one could assume the blocking could have come down for Randone’s DraftKings blast in a mention with CNBC (Cramer’s employer), there could be a number of sensitive reasons contributing to the decision as well. Perhaps incessantly tagging someone while engineering little-to-no response may also have had it’s weigh of burden as well, but we may never know.

One thing is certain stemming as a lesson from this observation: don’t tag Jim Cramer unless you’re putting your life’s work into that tweet. Or just don’t tag him too often (and fairly certain that this doesn’t only apply to Cramer). On the other hand, it’s great seeing that things between Randone and the other half of the best boxing match to never happen eventually panned out:

I will fight him for you my king https://t.co/WIqZxHZiDl

— Pete (@draftcheat) December 23, 2020

In Other News…

Pete “DraftCheat” Christensen Joins Another DFS Platform

Excited to #JoinTheMovement with @RunPureSports! My first NFL article "10 under 10" is up on the site now, and I'll be in Discord with UFC thoughts for tonight. Use Promo Code "DC30" for 30% off your first week/month and 15% off your lifetime membership. https://t.co/Xjc8cezQRB pic.twitter.com/LvvNg2wZJk

— Pete (@draftcheat) December 12, 2020

Speaking of DraftCheat, the timing here couldn’t be better! Turns out that he’s getting back in the daily fantasy content fold by joining up with RunPureSports, another provider of DFS and sports betting strategy. I’m glad to see the return for his sake, considering the boxing career never really prospered the way we’d all hoped it would have.

DraftCheat’s popularity was at its height during his days at then-GuruElite (now known as Elite Fantasy), providing NFL and NBA DFS picks and insight with Jeff “El Jefe” Collins (before NumberBall) before eventually parting ways with the company when it became more apparent how batshit insane Tommy G (Elite Fantasy/GuruElite founder) happens to be. It was perceived that Pete and Tommy G had a falling out of sorts, particularly based on their curt Twitter interactions following the split.

Josh Jacobs Gives Fantasy Players Middle Finger On IG, Blocks Matthew Berry On Twitter

This is tweet he deleted. pic.twitter.com/dX3K1im3tg

— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) December 17, 2020

Jim Cramer isn’t the only person who will block anyone on Twitter at moment’s notice.

Leading up to the game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Indianapolis Colts, and in the first round of the fantasy football playoffs no less, Josh Jacobs took to his Instagram story stating that he wouldn’t be playing (despite his status remaining active on the public roster chart going into the game start). Naturally this infuriated fantasy owners across the nation, and certainly with plenty who elected not to play him out of caution. But this wasn’t all that was infuriating about Jacobs’ post.

Evidently Jacobs also included a middle finger emoji with the second part of the story, which ESPN fantasy football guru Matthew Berry didn’t take kindly to. Berry went on to rip Jacobs for the transaction on a Josh Jacobs edition of one of his show’s recurring segments, beyond the stakes of fantasy football but in regards to human decency.

Your daily reminder to Don’t Be This Guy. @iAM_JoshJacobs edition. Via The Fantasy Show on ESPN+. pic.twitter.com/iPlA4bWPw3

— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) December 17, 2020

To be clear I don’t care that he blocked me. Jerk move for what he did on IG.

— Matthew Berry (@MatthewBerryTMR) December 17, 2020

In turn, Jacobs blocked Berry on Twitter and the rest is history (including the 44-27 ass-beating the Raiders took from the Colts that day). Whether you side with Berry or Jacobs on how a player conducts themselves towards fans, it’s rather entertaining to see how much fantasy has become a part of reality in 2020’s world of sports. So much so that players are blocking the Matthew Berrys of the world.

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