And so so no one knows what you just said

But when you're all alone, you and your head

What's the computer say? It's older now, it says it's your own

It's been out in you've got a place in your hands

You've got thanks in your hands

Hello and welcome to episode 1233 of Effectively Wild

a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our featuring supporters

I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs

Hello, what I learned from this is that pre-recording as we were getting ready you rubbed your hands together like oh boy oh boy

We get to record a podcast

Not often we get to do a baseball podcast

It still gets me excited every time

So a few things to discuss we're going to do emails today

But before we do, our buddy Steven Brault made his major league national anthem debut

What did you think of his rendition?

It was good now I attended a Portland Pickles game on Tuesday night

A team that plays in the Rob Nyer commissioned West Coast league

And the national anthem was sung by someone who was very bad at it

So relative to that especially Steven Brault I thought killed it

I would think that it would be difficult to do that in front of your teammates

Because you wanted to be used to joking around with them

And it's hard to take someone seriously when they were singing with sincerity

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