I got to tell you if the people at 115 federal were to see an article critical of their work written anywhere, the one place they'd probably least like to see it is where it showed up yesterday.

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in the same place that you found this.

The place where the article ran was fan graphs.

If you're not familiar with fan graphs,

consider that to be the active, vibrant, holy Bible of the sports

advanced analytics, of the people who think the game at a different level, or in some cases, just think that they think the game at a different level,

depending on the quality of that work.

In this event, the author, Ben Clemens, someone I do not know,

and respectfully here, had not heard his name once before in my life until this article

put together something under the headline the pirate's approach to getting

Paul Skeens to the playoffs sign Adam Frazier and Tim Mesa which of course obviously

is intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

And actually, it's really, really nice headline, I must say.

And I also must say, this isn't all that easy for me.

But as the guy who just spent the past two episodes of this particular podcast,

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