It's so amazing because two so totally different styles of pitching, both really wildly effective.

It's got an interesting hype and baseball is so different.

How much are you dreading having to do a fourth podcast of the day?

Or is this like the light at the end of the tunnel? I don't know how you view this.

Yeah, this one feels like home to me. This one feels like I've been doing this for the longest time.

This is my first podcast. This is the one where I feel like I can just relax and no one expects very much out of me.

All right. Well, then why don't we relax and talk about some batmoaning?

Yeah, let's do a couple of quick follow-ups to two topics from our previous episode.

First about allowing first career hits. We talked about it was prompted by a question about Bartola Cologne

and how many first career hits he'd allowed. Only 11 as it turns out, which is not very remarkable.

But what was remarkable is that Clayton Kershaw has 12, which seems to be the active leader in that category.

And we were ruminating on that as we were recording and seemed odd that someone who was pretty young and also really great

would have allowed the most. But as a few people pointed out, there are reasons why you would expect Clayton Kershaw

to allow a lot of first career hits. Namely, he gets a lot of opening day starts and opening day starts

seem like the most likely time to allow first career hits.

So I don't know how many he's said something like seven opening day starts already, I think.

So that's a good opportunity to accumulate these. And also some people suggested that maybe team sit tough lefties against him

and might stick a righty in there who doesn't get to play much. I don't know if that's a big factor.

But maybe you get some lineup changes, you you get some bench guys in games against Kershaw to get the platoon advantage.

So that could be another factor. So it is really a reflection of how good he is that he has allowed the most.

Yeah, it's one of those where like giving up a lot of something bad is a reflection of how good you are.

I wonder about the opening day thing. I know enough people brought it up just to the first place.

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