Good morning and welcome to episode 125 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective stale broadcast. In New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach

California you are Sam Miller. How's the weather in Long Beach? It's fine, nobody

nobody I've learned nobody likes hearing Californians talk about weather in

the winter. It's just not, it's like trying to talk about politics on the

internet. It just does not go the way you think it's going to go. Yes, that's

why I asked. I wanted you to to regale our listeners with stories of your 70

degree weather or whatever it is there. Probably to do. But maybe it is. So did

you with our sight down almost all day today? Did you read anything anywhere

else? Yeah, probably more than I would have otherwise. That's my

point. I see. Yes, yes, I did. What did you read? I don't know. Lots of

stuff. Derek Jeter is worried about climate change. I read. Yeah, well,

geez, if he were in California right now, he sure would be. It's so warm here.

Yeah, I don't know. I read things. Nothing, nothing I want to talk about

particularly. Have you read the Terry Frenkona book at excerpt yet? Was

there a whole chapter or something? I didn't read a whole chapter. I've read,

I think Chad Finn did something at the globe where he reproduced some of the

interesting parts. I read that. Yeah, sports illustrated about, well, I

don't know if it's a current episode, but it was a current issue. But about a

week ago, they excerpted a chapter about his, basically, his final year and

about the dysfunctional. Well, the point of the chapter was that ownership is

fairly dysfunctional and that they were kind of weird and off the tracks or in

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