Sending the city with the city with the sea for us

Take me through another night, this awful night

And I'm in a sherry, be all right

Hello and welcome to episode 1236 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fanegrass

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh, of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan. Hello, speak to the people Jeff

Hello, this is my voice, you I'm for anyone out there, you don't know this, so you you hear about hitters and pictures and they'll talk about how they don't want to overthink what you're doing, you can't get in your own head when you are performing on the baseball field and then messed up, then messed up the intro

to this episode, you didn't hear it, it's not part of it, but he forgot how to do the intro a bit because he thought about it, Ben you overthought it's not just a reflex

Well, at least I didn't forget how to speak entirely, which you did for the better part of a week, which it turns out not being able to speak kind of puts a crimp in one's podcasting plants

We've had all sorts of issues over the many episodes of this podcast guests who cancel it the last minute and technical problems and schedule conflicts and other work getting the way we can always find a way around that but not being able to speak kind of a deal breaker

When I when I was in high school and I was a pitcher long story short got I got brained by a line drive and it put me in the hospital for a while and for several weeks I couldn't talk

I couldn't I couldn't form words but I knew I knew what I wanted to say my brain worked in that regard and I could at least I could make noise I could I could issue a

Blaring response just a nebulous noise that came out of my body that would assure someone that I am listening I am trying to respond to you I can't say any words

This was the first time I've ever felt mute and the worst of it besides how long it lasted was that it got me I was already sick we had a fan grabs company meeting in Denver last week

And we had a meetup on Friday night in the wind coop brewery it was a range by us so that readers and listeners could come and meet those of us who were present and we just hang out and talk about baseball for four hours

And I went into that sick but feeling okay and about two hours in I could say no more words at all I think part of it was just having to raise my voice a little above the the din of the bar

And so I felt awful for the people who had come up Nick in the button down short sleeve blue shirt you were there he had the big black X on your hand because you were 19 years old they let you sneak in but they couldn't serve you alcohol

I am very sorry Nick that you sat down and introduced yourself to me and I just gestured at you it wasn't it wasn't my fault I couldn't do anything I couldn't talk and so I felt hopeless but I couldn't bring myself to leave the meeting because then I thought at least this way people can in theory meet the shell of a man who cannot communicate but I did have to write out some text messages to try to get the message across it was very uncomfortable yeah well you work from home I work from home a lot of fan graphs writers work from home

maybe it's like you know when Darwin would go to different islands and he would notice that life would evolve differently on each of those different ecosystems because it was isolated from all the others maybe that's how it works with

fan graphs writers and germs and viruses they just never have any human contact and so you kind of develop your own internal fauna then you meet your colleagues and everyone gets sick at the same time that could be what happened here

yeah keep an eye to see if anything gets published on the graph next week because I might have brought all of them down all right so your voice is not a hundred percent right now so here's what we're going to do we know that we have a banter backlog things have been happening in baseball but we don't want to push it too far you are like just resuming podcasting activities

it's like when someone starts doing baseball activities and they start taking dry swings and you know you don't want to throw them right back into the thick of it so we're not going to do all the banter now we have a guest episode we have two guests lined up for this podcast and tomorrow we'll be back we'll do emails and banter and hopefully your voice will be at full or fuller strength by then so later in this episode we will talk to Michael McClellan who is an effect we are listener and also someone who

just obtained or is about to obtain his PhD in atmospheric science at MIT he is a smart guy and he looks at baseball analysis through a meteorological lens and the rays have just hired him to do that or something for them so before he disappears and goes to work for the

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