Hello and welcome to episode 1285 of Effectively Wild, a baseball

podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by the birthday boy Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass. Hello happy birthday.

Thank you for the birthday boy not a fast boy not a fast boy like Chris Taylor or

Yassiel Puyger or Chris Taylor. That was a deep cut I don't know if that made any sense.

Anyway, one of the reasons that we plan to do this podcast on Thursday is because

that way having last potted on Tuesday there would be four new games for us to

talk about. What happened two games ago? I only remember the games now from Wednesday

because Tuesday feels like a distant distant memory. I'm not convinced that

there actually was baseball back then I'm not convinced there was a Tuesday. Wednesday

was everything. There was a lot of interesting baseball Wednesday. A lot has

happened. We have a lot of material we've we've had to stretch a little bit in

some of these episodes and somehow we still get to the same length no better

what but we've we've had to dig deep and right now I feel like we just have too

much to talk about. So I know that you were up very late writing and we will

talk about what you were writing about but man we have a lot to get to we have

managerial decisions and non decisions we have Joe West we have incredible

catches baseball's gotten good finally we talked about how the division series

was pretty dull historically dull and now we're into a championship series that

has been competitive and exciting in different ways as Andy McCullough tweeted

it seems like these are two different sports at times the ALCS and the NLCS but

man I don't know where to start should we just start with the most recent

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