Our relationship has been a series of misadventures from beginning to end.

Good morning and welcome to episode 119 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

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

My Long Beach crew. I've been...

That's the first and last time I've made a rep reference on this podcast.

Sam Miller, how are you? Good. Good. How are you, Ben? Okay. We have times to talk about today.

The Dodgers have looked into Rafael Soriano. The Diamond Vex are unlikely to land Rick

Porcelo. Things I can't even keep track of all the things that are happening.

Do you know I've been pronouncing it Porcelo my entire life?

I used to... I used to be a Porcelo pronouncer.

You know what would be useful? Actually, somebody should create this

blog. I don't imagine it would be that hard to get the information from all the teams,

you know, because it's in all the media guides. But why isn't there a

league-wide pronunciation guide for baseball players? I don't know.

That's a pretty easy blog to put together and I don't know. Maybe only I would look at it.

So maybe that's why it doesn't exist. And it would instantly be dated because prospects

are a lot of times the ones that I don't know how to pronounce. But like I'm looking at this list

of questions that we might talk about today. And there are a number of names I don't know how to say.

And so I'm not going to answer those questions. I think most people don't particularly care.

They just kind of plow right ahead. However, however they feel like it should be said,

they just say it. And probably they don't have a podcast. So no one is listening. So it doesn't

matter if they get it wrong. And no one will email them to tell them they got it wrong.

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