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Good morning. This is effectively wild. The daily podcast for baseball

perspectives for Monday, August 6th. We're glad you're joining us.

The $100 microphone overlooking the Hudson River. We have my esteemed editor and chief

Ben Lindbergh, which sounds exactly the same as the $30 microphone.

But it sounds a lot better than my $4 microphone. And under the faint glow of a fluorescent light

that keeps my compost worms from escaping, I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. Ben,

how are you doing? Doing pretty well. We got through the weekend. I hope everyone who begged us

to do a weekend show got through the weekend, even though we didn't do a weekend show.

And probably never. Yeah. That guy was persistent. Yeah. Well, he likes the show. I appreciate

that he likes the show. But we don't have a lot to say under the best of circumstances.

So pushing it to seven days a week would be would be pushing it. Well, you've had two

four days to think of a topic to discuss tonight. Do you have one? I do. I'd like to talk about

the royals. Oh, man. I would like to talk about the royals.

This is trouble because I have exactly five minutes that I can fill on the royals. And so I was

hoping that your five, Sam, like, I don't know, Brad Penny or something always might

will have different aspects of the royals to discuss. Do you want to start? Okay. Well,

I had a couple of approaches. I was going to take and I ruled a couple of them out, but maybe

I'll have to bring them back now. So the royals beat the Rangers today. Seven, six,

Jeff Rancor hit a home run, which was weird because Jeff Rancor is having the worst season of

Jeff Rancor's career, which is really saying something. Jeff Rancor was traded for by the Rangers

two years ago for their World Series push, which is also really weird. And the royals initially

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