Go on the spectator, see my field, I discovered, light me in a jar.

Go on the spectator, see my field, I discovered, light me in a jar.

Hello and welcome to Episode 1256 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Patreons and Patreons supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of

Paincrafts. Oh, hi, how are you? Welcome home, lots of things. Hi. Thank you. Yeah, I'm home, I'm sort of

sore because while I was away I subjected myself to all manner of tests and activities that actual

professional athletes subject themselves to, which I won't go into all the detail because

this will be in the book next year, but it's a spice it to say I am not a professional athlete and

tests have proven it and now have the quantitative evidence to suggest that I am not equivalent to a

professional baseball player in really any way, although I wasn't formed that I'm pretty good for a writer, so I'll take it.

Did you pass any sort of physical exam? I know, Meredith beat Rhett Orion, divish, subjected himself to like the preseason

physical one point just to get an article out of it because it's better than writing some fluff story, so I don't want you to

give up too much, but what was the idea behind what tests you were subjected yourself to? Well, I'm writing a book about

player development with Travis Suchick, formerly of fangrass, congratulations to Travis on his new job for

538, and so the idea is that we are subjecting ourselves to player development to a certain extent. So I wouldn't say it was

a physical per se, but it was certainly physical. There were physical activities that both of us underwent, and I say I represented

myself fairly well, but a lot of these tests have comparisons like the bass lines are pro baseball players, and so

when just a civilian comes in off the street and does one of these tests, even if you think you did pretty well,

you then are quickly informed that no, you actually did not do very well professional athletes are professionals for

reasons they're pretty good at what they do.

Were, did you have any, like, did you think that you would do better at certain things than what it'll be in the

book? Like everyone can wait, I guess that includes your podcast co-host.

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