my encounter which predicts the end of time to occur on the 21st of December of this year.

This year.

This year.

Good morning and welcome to episode 107 of Effectively Wild,

the baseball perspective daily podcast.

Thank you.

In New York, New York, where it is December 21st in my timezone and the world is not over and we

have recorded a podcast where we are recording one. I'm Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,

California, where we hope his wireless signal strength will cooperate. Sam Miller. Hello, Sam.

Yeah, I mean, I don't I understand that there were problems yesterday, but I don't know that we

can blame it on me. Oh, I think we can. I'm comfortable doing that. I think it's I mean,

it's just as likely that it was your fault as mine. I would argue with that. I mean, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't blame it on you directly. It's like in which more of an institutional problem.

But I'm very near my wireless signal. I'm no longer in the car. I mean, I'm in the cold

like it'd be close. So you were in what you were not in the car last night? I was not in the car

last night. I was I was just just probably 12 feet from my wireless radio. Well, we'll see how it

goes today. And if you start cutting out, if you start cutting out, I will stop this. So this is

names have failed downward. Yeah, you stopped in probably. Yes. All right, but this is our last show

before Christmas. We have brought sort of two topics. I don't know if they're two full topics,

but they're close to full topics. You want to talk about what?

Well, why don't you just say what you want to talk about? And then we'll decide whether we have to.

What do you want to talk about? I wanted to talk about kind of the impact of qualifying offers

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