On and on, mad road winds, God knows you don't need it.

You're worthy you might be the one.

Find yourself somewhere else, to early in the sun.

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Portors. This is episode 1042. I'm a lot of sequence. I am Jeff Sullivan of Fangraps

talking as usual with Ben Lindbergh of The Ranger. Hello Ben.

Hello. Did you suffer a spontaneous sympathetic nasal structure yesterday when Kean

Brockson was hit by a baseball? I assume you two are psychically linked in some sense.

Now, I might have gotten as many get well messages after that as Kean Brockson did.

I'm just going to guess, but I was relieved to read after the fact that he suffered a broken

nose and will not go on a disabled list. Kean Brockson, he is fantastic and he is making

a decision like a true experienced skateboarder who is probably banged himself up pretty

good in the past. Yep, good thing he was wearing that C-flap.

Did it actually catch him on the flap? I think it did.

It looked like it did and he said afterward that everyone should wear it, that he was deciding

whether to use it or to just use the traditional padding helmet in spring training and he decided

to go with the one with the flap. I guess it's a good thing that he did.

Yeah, still broke his nose though. It could be the case though that there's a Peltzmann

effect at work here. Are you familiar with the Peltzmann effect? I think there are other

names for it, but the idea that if you do something to increase your safety, you will

subconsciously do something else to put yourself at risk so that there's kind of an equilibrium

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