Hello and welcome to Episode 1138 of Effective You Wild, a fan-grapfe baseball podcast

brought to you by our Patreon supporters, so as 1137, so as 1138, I am Jeff Sullivan.

Of fan-grapfe's joint is always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer and in the background his dog.

We are recording this on Wednesday because I'll be out of town, and so our breaking super outdated news is that Corey Cluber just won the Saiyong.

That's the second one. This will no longer be that relevant to you listening if this is published on Friday or Saturday.

Yeah, apologies if there have been any big baseball developments that we're not able to talk about yet today, but fortunately most of the award votes this year were not really in question.

I guess you don't have our hot NL MVP takes yet, so you'll have to wait for those because we don't know who the NL MVP is yet.

But why don't you explain to the people we're recording a little bit earlier today? Where are you? Where in the world is Jeff Sullivan now?

Right now as I'm recording this, I'm in Portland, Oregon at home, but where I will be is not here.

Just taking an anniversary trip down to the American Southwest, flying to Phoenix and immediately leaving Phoenix to go into Northern Arizona, which is quite beautiful.

There is a particular restaurant that we are apparently Dave Cameron has almost mandated.

I think I might get fired if we don't eat at this place called a lotay and order apparently at least five appetizers of a lotay,

a Latin preparation of corn that they apparently remove from the cob. Anyway, some beautiful desert landscapes and what not to be found going to swing by the Grand Canyon because you can't not.

And then there's a bunch of other stuff, some moonscapes, so we'll see a lot of sunrises and sunsets.

So one of the only times a year that you will find me willingly going to a desert.

Yeah, and indoor destination. I'm surprised that you mentioned a restaurant. Usually it's much more outdoorsy destination than that, but you'll see some of that too.

The idea is to see the outdoors, but we have to eat at some point. That's true. You can bring food with you.

But yeah, all right. We'll have a nice trip. Hope you're having a nice trip currently as people are listening to this happy anniversary, et cetera.

Thank you.

All right. So here's the problem. What are you going to be doing for all of your anniversaries in the middle of October?

It's not just the wedding that's the problem. I know. That's true. I'm kind of kind of for the rest of my life. Let's hope I am locked into the October anniversary.

So I don't know. I don't know. I can't really do anything. I guess it gets me out of certain things that people might have to do on their anniversaries, but it also precludes some fun things that people might have to do.

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