Here I was so clear that you seemed to speak to me from a peaceful world

And it looked like singing, made a black pearl

I'm not a teenager, the only one like you that I find

But sure you're one of a very few of a kind, yes you are!

Hello and welcome to episode 182 of Effectively Wild to a baseball podcast from bandwrestth

presented by our patrons of quarters, I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Bandgrass

Hello! Hello! All Star Break, not really a break for us in any way

I don't think it has affected our workload whatsoever

But here we are on an All Star Break episode

And we're recording this prior to the All Star game after the home run derby

So we're not going to talk about the All Star game yet

Because we don't know what happened, will happen, will have happened in that game

We can talk about that tomorrow if there's anything to talk about

But did you have any home run derby reactions other than oh my goodness Aaron Judge?

It wasn't even so much oh my goodness Aaron Judge

Because in a sense that seemed like it was inevitable

I know the home run derby doesn't always go the way you think it's going to go

The favorite doesn't always win but I'm not sure we've ever had a favorite quite like Aaron Judge

Who very genuinely is just a statistical outlier even among statistical outliers

I mean you saw presumably the list of the hardest hit home runs in the home run derby

And it was just like 90% judge at the top

It's just unbelievable

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