Somehow I know, really I can't share quite where and I don't know just when.

You're in my heart, so one children want to smile, want to cry, say you could find them.

Hello and welcome to episode 1000 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus, presented by our Patreon supporters and the Playindex at

Baseball Reference. I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined for the last time as

co-host at least by Sam Miller of ESPN. Hello. Hello. So for the longest time we've

known what we're gonna do for 1000 at least in the broad strokes and

usually we don't know what we're gonna do in the next episode, but we've known

years and advance that this is what we would do for the big round number. And I

guess the origins of this were I don't know almost 800 episodes ago. The last time

we had Kevin Goldstein, the Pro Scouting Director for the Houston Astros.

Wasn't it 900? I thought I thought we had him in episode 100 and that was it.

Now we had him in 100 and then I think we said we'd leave him alone for a while

and we didn't really. We had him back on like 220 something and then we said

we'd leave him alone for a while and I think we said leave him alone until 500

and as it turned out we left him alone for 500 more episodes after that. But he

is here again. Hi Kevin. Yeah, if this was the plan all along. I just had you do a

horrible planter. Yeah, we really put out all the stops. Yeah, you had like

when you did a milestone episode of up and in, maybe it was 50 I don't know, but

you you did a whole big blow out and you had Scott Boris on and you had big plans

and we we just are talking to you. Yeah, I feel like I feel like I feel like to some

degree the payoff of this show has always been the callback. It's never about like

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