So might say take a chill, but I can't cheat because there's somebody trying to kill me.

I'm popping in the grip when the wind blows every 20 seconds got me peeping on my window.

Investigating the joint for traps.

Taking my telephone for tests.

I'm sipping at the woman on the corner.

It's messed up when your mind is playing tricks on you.

Hello and welcome to episode 1255 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer in Los Angeles now joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts.

Hello. Hello. How are you? How's the smoke? Is there smoke?

I don't think there's much smoke or smog from what I can tell out my window,

but I'm pretty tired. I've had a lot of travel and flights and interviews and conversations,

and I'm about ready to be home, which I will be by the time we record our next episode.

But I've got one more road game to do. So we will see how this goes,

and I figured we could start with some news that is unsurprising and perhaps inevitable,

but still sort of depressing, and probably particularly for you,

which is that Felix Hernandez is now a relief pitcher.

Never thought I'd see the day.

Yeah, so it's hard to know when what moment is the moment when you're supposed to just start

coming to terms with it and you write your eulogy. It's not that his career is over, but you know,

he's been pretty average or bad going on out of what is this three years now,

and he just allowed more runs in a start than any other pitcher has allowed in a start.

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