Q&A with our French Open Champion

Earlier today, I sat down with this year's French Open champion, Jeremy Freese. Here's an excerpt from my interview with him:

You made some stinging comments during our last podcast. Comments that have since gone viral. Now FTLers are left feeling bitter and demoralized. How will you handle the pressure of wearing such a large bulls-eye during our last four events?

It's rhubarb season here in Evanston! Beckie has made this really lovely rhubarb syrup. I've been using it to make this wonderfully tasty and refreshing drink as we head into summer. The recipe is one part syrup, and four parts tears of my vanquished FTL foes. I'm a big believer that when life hands you lemons, you made lemonade; similarly, when life hands you a tangled mass of dispirited and psychologically broken FTL rivals, you have to make the best of it by feasting on the carrion of their misery however you can.

If you were a member of the FTL competition committee, what "Wilt Chamberlain rule" would you adopt to prevent yourself from winning all the time?

Realistically, it would probably involve closing me away in a special lead chamber at the bottom of an abandoned mine, filling the rest of the shaft with concrete and plowing salt into the ground above. Alternatively, you could stop sending out reminders when picks are due.

You are the most compelling and polarizing figure in FTL right now. How does it feel to be the owner of the most popular, and yet most hated, franchise in league history?

I'm working to improve public relations with my other owners and with FTL fans. For example, I recently invested in having the FTL logo tattooed on my posterior, and twice a week, I am holding open audiences where interested riffraff from the community can stop by to smooch it. My foes are welcome to join the queue, although I would urge you to come early and, please, no groveling.