Just the same old thing

Just the same old thing

The matter I'm into love you try to pray

Just the same old thing

Hello and welcome to episode 1127 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our patreon supporters

I'm Ben Bloomberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of fan graphs who was away for the weekend

Climbing things I assume what were the latest Sullivan's travels describe where you went what you did no no climbing

No climbing this time it was hike every

No, so every every October my birthday falls in the middle of October every October

That's the way that it works in October also happens to be the month that the baseball playoff take place

But yeah, I never want to let baseball entirely consume my life

So we always take a day or two or three away over some weekend to go do something in celebration of the birthday and so get married

Maybe you could do that

I will based on two of my role models that seems to be the thing to do so we

Just got a place up at a timberland lodge on Mount Hood

Which is a classic WPA construction high mountain lodge ski lodge up on Mount Hood

But ordinarily wonderful place to use a base camp to go do some hikes or or climbing

But there was a mountain storm that was on the mountain while we were there gusting winds of about 60 to 70 miles

Prower knocked out the power which was a lot of fun

But they had an outdoor heated pool and hot tub

This is not at all to brag everyone has been in a pool or a hot tub

But I have never had the sensation of being in a pool or a hot tub outdoors when there was a mountain storm taking place

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