I can take me high to heaven, and I've ever never known.

Can we get fit, can we get fit, like a king to quill on the throne?

I want to take me high to cause you take me high.

I love them and I smile, send me an extra seat baby.

Hey, we're all low.

Hello and welcome to episode 1776 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangras presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangras. Hello.

Hello. We covered our weekends in the pre-episode banter or the pre-episode pre-banter episode.

I don't know how to say it. Before we started recording, I had a pretty good weekend.

You actually didn't say, how was your weekend? That's fine.

Well, it's probably not interesting to listen to people talk about the weather, but it got the 100 degrees both days, I think, in Portland, Oregon, which is not something that we are accustomed to experiencing.

And so even though we try to schedule every single weekend to get out in the wilderness, this was a weekend where the earth was trying to kill us.

And so we stayed inside and not allowed that to happen.

Get used to it.

Alright, so we have a few banter topics or at least I do. I don't know what you have.

I wanted to ask you just about something you wrote about, which is the Red Sucks and High Fastballs.

I have not read the post yet, but I was intrigued by the title because I am not sure what I'm supposed to think about High Fastballs these days.

I was a strategy that seemed to be invoked maybe a year or two ago and everyone was talking about how High Fastballs were the new thing.

And I haven't heard it as much recently. There was suggestion that High Spin Fastballs are better if you throw them high in the zone.

And then you did a post looking for more High Fastballs as a counter to the home run surge.

And I think you didn't find them really. There hasn't been a trend toward them.

But I know that according to the title of your post, the Red Sucks are all in on High Fastballs and the rays are all in on High Fastballs.

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