Hey everyone, in this episode we talk about a couple of ways that you can help Houston.

Just so you know, we do not talk about the way that the Houston Astros helped themselves

late Thursday night when they acquired Justin Verlander from the Tigers.

Typical procrastinating teams, waiting till the last minute to make moves,

and we had already recorded this episode by then.

So we'll talk about the Verlander deal next time, but we do have a lot lined up for today,

so let's get to it.

Hello and welcome to episode 1104, with effectively wild a baseball podcast from

Van Graffs presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lingerig of the ringer,

joined by Jeff Sullivan of Van Graffs.

Hello, hello and welcome.

Thank you.

Later in this episode, we are talking to Will Johnson, who is a musician and an artist.

He does baseball art, and he has created a work of baseball art concerning Mookie.

It's a portrait of Mookie, and he is auctioning it off now.

I guess I have to specify which Mookie it is, right?

It's not Mookie, that's the Metz Mookie.

Mookie Wilson, and he is auctioning it off now for Hurricane Harvey relief.

All proceeds go to Houston, and we'll get to him in a bit.

We'll get to Banta first, but we are also doing a little bit of our own auctioning off,

or raffling off in our case for Hurricane Harvey relief.

And I mentioned several episodes ago that my trusty Yeti Mike, which had served me well for more than

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