Hello and welcome to episode 1091 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fangraths presented by our Patreon supporters in Salina Kansas. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined in Portland as always by Jeff Sullivan of Fangraths. Hello! We have the American

Association to thank for your current location. It's funny how a tweet that was directed at us

essentially led us to that game with the with WinBank Goldbys which then led us to baseball reference,

led us to the Salinas.cade which led me to JD Jody which led you to Salina Kansas.

Yeah, that is the crazy thing about this podcast that keeps contributing to things that I never would

have expected. The book came out of this podcast. My wedding proposal or marriage proposal came

out of this podcast in a way or at least the way that I did it. And yeah, my current location in

an America's best value in where the house cleaning person comes around with a shopping cart

from a grocery store and the pool is empty and just a pit. It's like a pit, the same Miller would

have liked to see on a field. It's not the best place but it doesn't claim to be. It just claims

to be a good value and that it is. And yeah, I have seen this Salinas.cade lose once after we record.

I will be seeing them play a double header and JD Jody himself spent over an hour on the couch

right next to me now talking to me about his life story yesterday. So it's amazing. Dreams can come

true. I figured that one hour going over JD Jody's life story probably accounts for about one quarter

of the years that he's been alive. Yeah, it's a very busy life. I also talked to him for quite a

while before a baseball game and probably we'll talk to him some more. Yeah, there is a lot of

ground to cover but I will get to all of that in the story perhaps next week. Fantastic. I like

forward to it and it's it's have you considered that maybe it's America's best value in does not

have a pool but does have a skateboard park. That's true. Yeah, I didn't come equipped for the amenities

that it actually does offer. So I have probably said this before in the podcast but I don't know if I've

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