I'm Kevin Smith, I'm Rick B, and I will not be to be.

Hello and welcome to episode 106 of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from Van Graf's

and baseball perspectives presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer. Join sort of fully for the first time by Jeff Sullivan from Van Graf's. Hi Jeff,

welcome back. Hello, thank you. This is this is delightful. Yeah, making some history here in a very

small scale way. The last time we talked to you were in an airport and we were discussing post-vacation

depression as yours said in yet. Oh no, no, no, no, this is still the adrenaline part of there's so

much that you want to get done when you get back. I don't know the last time you took a vacation

because the last time we spoke you referred to the fact that you don't do that ever. But you know,

if you take a weekend then you kind of go off the grid, you lose touch, you come back and all

of a sudden there's a lot of stuff to do. And it kind of keeps you from you know collapsing entirely,

but I am just home after about 30 hours of travel from the other side of the planet. So the

collapse is imminent and hopefully I can put it off by about 40 to 45 minutes. 30 hours. How does

that add up? It's a punta arena, santa jago, santa jago to Mexico City, Mexico City to Guadalajara,

Guadalajara to Los Angeles and then Los Angeles to Portland. I'm not saying that it was the most

the direction way. There are direct flights, I think from San Diego to Los Angeles at least,

but this was the way they cost about $300. So that part was incredible. Yeah, well like what two

days ago you were looking at penguins and now you're back. Yeah, looking at Portland again.

If you want, I mean you already think that like the baseball landscape in January is bleak,

but consider the baseball landscape in January two days after being on an island with 150,000

penguins in a colony. Yeah, and it's brutal. Yeah. When you left you assured me that I'd be able to

talk about Mike Napoli at least for one of the weeks that you were gone and then even that didn't

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