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Hello and welcome to episode 1345 of Effectively Wild a baseball-powered

cast of bandwraps presented by our Patreon supporters who are even more

nervous than they were yesterday. I am Ben Mimberg of the Ringer joined by a

set-mailer of the SPN. Hello Ben can I can I do something I don't think that

we've ever done before very briefly we have recorded two interviews about two

teams I know that when they play one after the other it sort of gives the

illusion that we're just doing them but they've already been recorded and so

I'm gonna break that illusion because I would curtain here. I would like to

just clarify something that I say in about an hour which is to say about an

hour ago. You're gonna hear me say that Max Scherzer has been the best

pitcher in baseball for six years. Now I'm not saying that Max Scherzer was the

best pitcher in baseball six years ago. Clay and Kershaw was the best pitcher

in baseball six years. I'm doing a time frame thing and that is the trick of

the fun factor. So I I don't know exactly what day you could say that Max

Scherzer became the best pitcher in baseball. I mean certainly looking forward if

you'd been given the choice on that day you might have said starting now he's

the best but this is all hard to hard to do on on human scale. So I just don't

want anybody to get too distracted by it so I'm getting the distraction out of

the way. Think about what I'm going to say get used to it live with it for a

little bit and when I say it in an hour just let it roll right past yeah.

Yeah. There were so a whole series of articles I think that you could

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