You're the worst. You're the worst. You're the worst. You're the worst. You are the worst. Hey! You do not get to

cooperate with the worst.

Good morning and welcome to episode 104 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller. Still in Tyler, Texas in case you're wondering. And in New York, New

York is Ben Lindbergh. How are you been? All right. How was day two in Tyler? The same. So Russell

Carlton wrote a piece for us on Monday called There is No Unicorn. And it was about what he

perceives to be a pervasive negativeness by baseball fans toward every move that their team ever makes.

He sums it up, I think, with perhaps my favorite sentence, which is... Well, I don't know where it is.

You've not committed it to memory. No, I'm going to just read a paragraph. Oh, the sentence that I

like ends this paragraph. What fascinates me is that when teams make the big or little move, it's

rare to find any fans of the team who are happy and content about the move. What's even more interesting

is that for the trades that have gone down, it seems that both sides are sad about their team's

relative position afterward. At the four-way deal that was supposed to happen at the winter meetings

happened. Most baseball fans would be an inconsolable mess at this point. I have asked you to

come up with your three least favorite moves this year, limited to free agent signings or

player extensions, because I want to see whether we agree. And because I think it's a good time

to do that. We're midway through the offseason. And I figure we will otherwise talk about whether

we agree with the impression that Russell has and whether there is any reason for it. I personally

will start, though, by saying that I think that he exaggerates the problem somewhat. I think that...

I mean, I really like the article and all the arguments that he came up with that I have seen

used before. But yeah, I mean, there have certainly been recent trades that people have been happy

about. I mean, I'm sure you can find some fans on each side of most deals that aren't happy with

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