The Night Shift is the TDK LABS live-stream. Fantasy baseball, on camera, after midnight.
Live drafts and slow drafts, pick by pick. The TDK TEN DAY matchup grid on-screen while the decisions are getting made. The TDK FACTOR column open. Whichever of my leagues has a live draft that week gets the first half of the show; the second half sits on whatever is happening on the grid, the waiver wire, and the week ahead.
If you're already playing NFBC 15-team, you'll recognize the register. If you're watching to learn, the grid does a lot of the teaching.
Why "night shift"
The name isn't metaphorical. I used to work a literal night shift. That rhythm — quiet building, one light on, long stretches where the work is just you and the thing — is how I still operate. The name names that.
The stream happens when it happens — usually late. That's when drafts finalize, when the next day's matchups come into focus, when the noise of the daytime league-chat drops off and the math lines up clean.
What's on-stream
- Live drafts — an NFBC or Bubba-and-the-Bloom Listener League draft, pick by pick, with my notes in front of me and the TEN DAY grid up.
- Slow drafts — the draft-over-days format, pick-by-pick, recorded and re-narrated. If you've never watched a slow draft, it's the format where you actually see the strategy form.
- Copycat lineup calls — Copycat is my 20-team ESPN keeper league, daily-moves format. Every morning I set a lineup against the TEN DAY grid; on the stream I narrate why.
- TEN DAY walkthroughs — what the grid says about the current week, what it said a week ago, where it was right, where it was wrong, what I adjusted.
- Guests, maybe. Possibly. Not scheduled. When it makes sense.
What the show is trying to be
A working live-stream. Not a hype cast. The grid is the primary on-screen surface — same color scale, same sort rules, same data as the page you can pull up yourself. The voice register is closer to Johnny Dollar than it is to a late-night sports talk show: clipped, procedural, self-aware about the fact that a matchup is a prediction with an error bar and a matchup call is a decision under uncertainty.
If you're looking for takes about whether a guy is a "must-start," this isn't the stream. If you're looking for the reasoning that takes you from a matchup grid to an actual lineup decision and back to the grid the next morning with a correction, this is.
When it goes live
Imminent. Dates will be posted on the TDK90MIN YouTube channel and at tdk90min.com. If you're subscribed, you'll get the notification.
FAQ
When does the show air?
Late night, Pacific. Specific nights will be posted on the YouTube channel when the schedule settles.
Is the stream free?
Yes.
Where does it live?
YouTube — youtube.com/@tdk90min. This page will surface the current archive when episodes start.
Is the TDK TEN DAY grid the same one on tdk90min.com?
Yes. Same data, same sort rules. The live-stream version might be filtered to a specific roster (e.g., Copycat) for segment clarity, but the underlying grid is the public one.
Can I get on the show?
Email — tdk90min@icloud.com. Be patient.