Now, this is what I call a bet.

Good morning and welcome to episode 121 of Effectively While, the Baseball Perspective

Daily Podcast.

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

I think me, as always, is Sam Miller.

Hello, Sam.

Hello, Ben.

It was an eventful day.

Doesn't it feel like we should be talking about the fake dead girlfriend?

But there's just no baseball connection that we could possibly portray out of it.

Neither of us had even heard the fake story before it was debunked today or yesterday.

If you're listening to this on Thursday.

So we had to catch up on the fake story and the real story at the same time.

That's true.

So we are going to talk about baseball.

There was some baseball news.

There was a trade that happened.

It was a trade that went three ways between the nationals and the mariners and the Okones.

I guess I will summarize the trade just for the benefit of people who haven't read about

it to Seattle was Michael Morse and Oakland got John J.

So and Washington got a couple of pitching prospects, AJ Cole and Blake Trinon.

And a player to be named later, who probably won't be anything major.

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