you want. We can just ask one question, you can just talk for the rest of the time and we can stop.

That would be nice. You don't really want that though. I want it, but

good morning and welcome to episode 133 of Effectively Wild, the baseball perspective daily podcast.

In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh. I am joined as always by Sam Miller and for the first time

by Ken Funk. Hello, Sam and Ken. Hey, how's it going? Good. We are going to talk about the white

socks today because that is next on our continuing tour of every team. So we're going to talk to Ken who

wrote the white socks chapter for the annual and then we're going to talk to our Pete already,

talk to Mark Gonzalez, the white socks beat writer for the Chicago Tribune. So that will come up

after this. It just occurred to me as we were preparing for this that maybe we should tell people

to buy the book for once. What do you think of that idea? I just, I don't think that it needs to be

so explicit. Yeah, I don't, I mean, maybe once wouldn't hurt. I mean, what? Like, like they,

they want to buy that they would buy it, they know of it, they're aware of it, but they need,

they need to be, they literally need to be told by they're sitting there for the last episode's going

where do I buy this book? How when for how much? Well, maybe they're on the fence right now and

after we're done talking about the white socks, they're just going to go out and pre-order it just

because it was so good. That is possible. Well, anyway, if they, I have to, I assume that people do

buy the book already and that what we're doing is more of a supplement so that they'll enjoy the

book more. I really don't think of this as a marketing thing so much as a total, total audience

experience kind of a thing. Probably, probably most of the people who are listening to this already

read BPR, you read the book, but if you have never read the book before, if you want to read the book,

it comes. It's a good book and we put a lot of work into it and it comes out officially on February

25th, but it always comes out before the official release date, usually about a week before, so

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