Hello and welcome to episode 127 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. I'm Sam Miller. I'm here with Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you doing? Very well. Thank you. I

understand you were on skis this weekend. I was skiing. Great story. Yeah. I just got back from

a friend's house where I was watching WWE Royal Rumble. That was fun. You don't start me as a...

I'm not WWE. No, but I have a couple of friends who are very... they analyze it in a very

intellectual way and I enjoy being around them while they are watching it. All right, yeah. So it's

an exciting time for us because we we get a little bit a little bit of a reprieve now that we're

starting our team previews. So later in the show we're going to have our intern, please say his name

for me. Pete Barrett. Pete Barrett will be interviewing, please say the other guy's name for me.

Pete will be talking or has already talked to Wallace Matthews from ESPN New York. So if you missed

our couple shows at the end of last week where we said what we were going to do, what we were going

to do is talk about one team per day until we are done with teams to talk about. So we're going...

Yeah, we're going to interview a BP author each day who wrote about that given team in the annual

and then we will combine that interview with Pete's interview of a writer or reporter of some sort

from that team. So it sounds great. Sounds like a really winning plan. So today we're going to talk

to the BP author who wrote the Yankees BP chapter. So who's the special guest? Me. Oh.

Yeah, it... Disappointing. Yes, I know. It would be nice if we could bring someone else in but

I did write that chapter. It was the only chapter I wrote. So you won't have to hear me again.

But yeah, that was my chapter. So I'm here. All right, I'm here. So I'm going to fire away.

Okay. All right. So the Yankees. I guess the... It seems to me that there is a kind of a general

pessimism about the Yankees going into the season, partly because it's optimism about the Blue Jays.

But also, I mean, I just get the feeling that this is a team that nobody is really all that

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