Hello and welcome to episode 118 of Effectively Wild Bay Fan Graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters,

Jeff Sullivan, her fan grabs, joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer. Hello Ben, hello, how are you?

I'm okay, that's good. Okay, good small talk. Well, this is the last day of our raffle entry. I don't know when this specific podcast will be published.

So perhaps as you listen to this, it's already passed, but Friday, I guess officially at the end of morning will be the cutoff for the raffle entry for her again, Harvey Relief,

where you can get the the excellence wagon versus Carlton's new book and effectively wild t-shirt. Ben and Sam's book that I'm definitely not jealous of not being involved in and a broken microphone, which I actually am not jealous of not being involved in, but firstly I would like to say all all credit should go to you Ben for this idea.

I think it came innocently enough out of making I think there's a throwaway joke about raffling up the microphone and then somebody to thought actually you should do that, but the donation angle entirely Ben's idea, he's the one who puts thought into everything.

And so credit to you, but I don't know what kind of expectations you had when when this began, but they've the reality is certainly exceeded mine. I can say that much for sure. I think we're we're up around right in the vicinity of $9,000.

Right. It's right. Is which is incredible. And I guess the drawing, I don't know exactly how you plan to do the drawing, but I would assume it's going to be with a Microsoft Excel random number generator.

Yeah, I can do that. I found something called random picker.com that I think I can use to maybe make it public in some way. So I will probably try using that. But yeah, the raffle format was suggested by listeners, I think, because I had initially thought of an auction.

And I'm glad we didn't do an auction because I don't think anyone would have bid $9,000 on this package. So a raffle was definitely a better idea. But even so, yeah, I am very impressed by the degree to which our audience came through here. It's really nice to see the, I don't know, one of the unfortunate angles here, as I mentioned, immediately prior to beginning to record the podcast. It already feels like we're a little behind because there are developing disasters, seemingly everywhere.

But yes, I guess we can always try to break more things that we use and try to sell them out. Yeah, no, I don't have any other fun broken stuff lying around. I don't think, but maybe I'll get some over time. But yeah, it feels like it's a good time to wrap up this raffle because the world has already moved on to trying to help other people in maybe even more acute need. So anyway, it has been a pleasure to see all of us.

It's a pleasure to see all of these hundreds, I guess, of emails rolling in over the past week or so. Many of them with nice messages attached. So thanks to everyone. Yeah, you have definitely answered the call and been some. I'm sitting in an old, not very good, any more office chair. This is an office chair that I've been sitting in for about six years of a daily baseball writing. This is an office chair that is survived falling out of a moving truck in a busy intersection during rush hour.

I'm not the battle scars. So I guess let's start the bidding at $10,000. Yeah, I throw mine in there too. I've had mine since since college, I think since maybe sophomore year of college or something I've had this chair. So yeah, it's a bit beat up, but I have certainly sat in it a lot. That's something that makes you want to pay for a chair. I don't know why it would. I don't want to think about why it would. So let's continue.

I guess it might actually cost a fortune to try to ship an office chair as well. So we're not going to sell off the office chairs. Now we know that the community is out there in case we ever wanted to.

So I don't know as far as Mantra goes, I don't know what you might have, but I feel like we are absolutely obligated to discuss the Cleveland Indians who last lost last season. They are up to 15 consecutive wins, which is the longest winning streak since the 2002 Oakland Athletics.

Yeah, there was a giant team in there. I was just reading a summary of this. And let's say this is a bill bear news post about this at Hardball Talkie says the last team to win at least 15 in a row was the 2002 to 2003 giants who won 15 straight. Oh, okay. So that's across the winning streak. So that's it. Yeah, that doesn't really count.

So yeah, within the same season, it is the money ball is from 2002. And yeah, it's, I mean, there are a bunch of streaks this long, but a lot of them are really archaic. And there are not a lot of teams that have done this in recent years. So yeah, I think Joshi and had the numbers in one of his recent newsletters. So I'm trying to break that up. But it's more rare than I even thought it was. I think his.

Let's see, longest winning streaks. Obviously, there's like, you know, 26 games is the longest winning streak. That's the 1916 giants. But in the post war era or in the integration era, at least it's really not a lot. There are five teams that have had 15 in that time since Jackie Robinson. And then only five teams that have had more. And yeah, it's been since 2002 with the A's. And that's the one that I'm going to say.

And then before that, 1977 Royals had 16, but that's, yeah, for others, you have to go back even further. So this is a rare streak at this point.

Travis Sotchik wrote on Fangiravs on September 1st about how the Indians court looked like ale favorites. And since then, they have won eight more consecutive games. There are two things. There are some angles here that make the streak more and less impressive.

So if I wanted to throw some cold water on everyone, the Indians last eight consecutive wins have come against the white socks who are terrible and the tigers who have rendered themselves terrible through subtraction. So these are not majorly teams they've been defeating. But then on the other hand, the streak began by sweeping the Yankees.

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