Come more and Peace Downton still stands and the parole is still in it.

Good morning and welcome to episode 113 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in

Long Beach, California where he is giddy with anticipation for the Downton

Abby season three premiere, Sam Miller. I'm so unhappy. I hated it. It's the worst.

I feel like we watch the same shows, but you don't like those shows, so for

Freaks and Geeks, we both like. Right. Freaks and Geeks is my favorite show ever,

but I like, I like plenty of shows. I just don't like... If I remember right,

you liked Denton originally and then you felt it got too soapy in season two,

was that how it went? Yeah, I did. That's mainly it. I enjoyed the... I didn't

flip for the first season, but I enjoyed it and I would have been happy enjoying

something that much forever, but I felt like all the storylines got stale.

None of the characters are really doing much. The only storyline that I'm

at all interested in is Matthew and Mary and it feels like the whole show is

padded in order to keep that one going forward and I just... I dread when they cut

away from it to show some other characters doing some other dumb things. And now your

wife is making you watch it, I imagine? She's not making me, but that is why I'm

watching it. I mean, it's a show that I watch with her and I'm not a quitter. I

mean, this is why I don't like to do things because once I start doing them,

I have a very hard time breaking the routine. And so, you know, if it's not a

thing I'm already committed to, I'm very low to attempt it. Well, I have seen

season three and I will tell you that you're gonna be glad to be back with

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