Coal and wrong like a baseball diamond waiting for the sun

Staying inside your boots, so stay driving never touch the sand

Coal and wrong people moving forward trying to find the answer

And then you'll be a favorite to hear and then I'm finally home

Hello and welcome to episode 1234 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Vangrass

presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer

joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass. Hello. Hi. If you sound a little bit different today

it is maybe partly because you're sick but also because you're not in your typical

recording place you are in Denver for the annual Vangrass meetup. I was invited. I couldn't make it

but I was honored to get an invite as just someone who podcasts for the site

but you got to go to Course Field which to my great regret is something that I have never done.

I've been in Denver once or twice but always just briefly or on my way somewhere else

so I have not gotten to Course Field yet. I really want to tell me about it.

It's a beautiful ballpark. I mean you already know about like the forested

batter's eye background and that little like basically wilderness park they have

in the outfield where Fernando Rodney famously sat on a chair and just kind of wandered through the trees.

So it's a it's a beautiful park. We didn't do a whole lot of exploring yesterday

it's just a Thursday matinee but we'll be going back to a game on Saturday which is

apparently a 25th anniversary celebration for the Rockies so it's going to be a big

crowd as they take on I think the Miami Marlins which will not be the drop but it's a beautiful

stadium great neighborhood it's in we sat next to a season ticket holder named Larry

who always wears a Rockies road jersey where instead of a name it says

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