7 stars in the sky in the sky high, you're feeling sociable, silver stars in your

eyes in your eye, you're feeling emotional, and you don't even know my name, and I know

every constellation.

Hello and welcome to episode 1241 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrass presented

by our Patreon supporters, I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined by Jess Lohlin of Vangrass.

Hello, my plan for today is to do kind of a norm-core episode of this podcast.

No talk about Williams, Estadio, and his origin story or any of the other strange stories

that we get fixated on unless they come up organically.

I thought we could just talk about what Joe baseball fan is talking about these days,

namely the All Star Game and the Trade Deadline, but is there anything that you wanted to

get to before then?

Well, based on that intro, I'm out, I'll be back when saying this, no place for me here.

Okay, so I didn't see something, this is just something that was retweeted by Tacoma

Rainier's AAA announcer Mike Certo, he retweeted something from the account minor league stories,

anyway, on this day, this referring to Monday, July 9th, on this day in 1911, a state representative

declared it Umpire Day in Washington so that Tacoma Tigers showered an umpire with praise

and flowers from the Eugene Guard.

I will just read these two paragraphs from the newspaper.

Tacoma observes first Umpire Day, official showered with roses and praise instead of

abuse.

Tacoma Washington, July 12th, July 12th, I guess.

For the first time in the history of baseball, an Umpire Day has been celebrated Sunday afternoon,

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