See my friend, see my friend, and I'll be there.

See my friend, see my friend, and I'll be there.

And welcome to episode 1155, with the effect of your wild, baseball podcast from Vandrass,

presented by our patrons, and the members of the ringer joined not today by Jeff Sullivan

of Vandrass, my regular co-host to his on vacation.

But by my friend, Stephen Goldman, formerly of baseball perspectives, and espionation, and

elsewhere, and currently the proprietor of the Infinite Inning podcast.

Hello, Steve.

Hi, Ben.

How are you?

I'm in the Infinite Inning myself right now, because we are in the deadest of all dead

periods on the baseball calendar, certainly, and really in any kind of calendar.

This is not the week to be podcasting about baseball.

This is the week to be taking vacations.

Like Jeff was wise enough to do, but I hope you want someone to run.

I think he did, yes, but I'm still doing podcasts, and so I'm very grateful to have you,

and also the listeners sending in emails so that we have something to talk about.

That's what we're going to talk about today, because if you're not into the Hall of Fame,

and I know neither of us is really that into the Hall of Fame at this point in our lives

and careers, or at least as much as we once were, and I kind of got it out of my system

on yesterday's episode too.

So if not that, then it's very, very slim pickings.

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