We've got a few minutes yet before the umpire calls batter up and that's a good

time for you to get set behind a grand glass of Valentine's Ailer Bear. Yes,

there it's time for those two bees baseball and Valentine's. That combination's

the good. I'm suggesting you take a quick trip to the refrigerator for a bottle

right now or if you're listening in there at your favorite tavern. Don't just ask for

an Ailer Bear but I'll start man for Valentine's Ailer and Valentine's Bear. And now

you're set for a swell afternoon of baseball and Valentine's. Hi. Hi Ben.

Hello. Welcome to baseball prospectus's daily podcast effectively wild. Thank

you. I don't know what number we're on because I can't actually I tried to check

the site. 126 I believe. Uh-huh. Well, we'll never know. If we had not done a

podcast, we would have ended the week on a multiple of five. It's not too late.

People don't know. People don't know that we're talking right now. Well, they don't

have to know. Yeah. Let's let's keep going. So it turns out that Justin

Upton, um, all the theories for that you offered for why Kevin Towers was

shopping him or why we were hearing so many trade rumors really just came down to

the diamondbacks didn't like the cut of his jib. Yeah. Do you believe that? Yeah. I do.

I really do. Yeah. It was always the, it seems like it was always the most likely

explanation. And I would think that even if it's not how what started the thing,

even if maybe the first, uh, the first time they floated him out there was

totally innocent. Uh, my guess is that that's the sort of thing that would cause

some tension between a club and a player anyway. Um, and, uh, so the things

probably got worse. It's my guess. Sure. Let me read from Ken Rosenthal's article

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