Losing is not a happy thing when the stakes are high

Not when you lose your lover on a simple goodbye

It's over, it's over, it's over

I can't look back, won't look back

My heart says it's done

Hello and welcome to episode 1289

Effectively wild a baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by Patreon supporters

I am Bill Lentberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts

Check that's a wrap, season over

I know it's sad that baseball is done

Because it is more fun to have things happening

We now get to talk about how many hundreds of millions of dollars Bryce Harper is going to make

And Manning the Child of Might have cost himself by being kind of a jerk sometimes

But the surge of just like relief and elation that comes the morning after the last game

Is like nothing else that I experienced in a professional setting during the year

It's just nice to be able to like plan sleep again

It's like that just this game is all the time and especially this weekend was so draining

I mean this series granted, this series showed a gone seven, the Red Sox Astro series

Every series the Red Sox had should have gone seven because the Red Sox Yankees Astros and Dodgers are the four best teams of baseball

And it feels like we were missing something by not having those series go the distance

But on the other hand, the way that the Red Sox Yankees series ended was heart-stopping

The Red Sox and Astros, well I don't really know what to say about that one, that was just kind of a bummer of his series

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