The Macy's the Sound of the Year, left behind.

The Macy's the Rich and World Dice section of the soul.

And I'm a fat, you will enjoy it.

Good morning and welcome to episode 1410 of Effectively Wild.

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on Sam Miller of PSPAN, along with Ben Lindbergh, the ringer.

Hey Ben, hello.

So we're going to do an email show today, even though it's not midweek.

And then we're going to do a midweek show on everything that happened at the trade deadline.

And so we will, for instance, talk about probably Marcus Strowman going to the Mets at that point.

Unless you have anything to say about that that is like so urgent, that like that the value of it comes from being in the Macy's

liminal space where we don't know what the Mets are doing yet.

So if you want to, you can, but otherwise we can just, you know, put that off for a couple days.

Yeah, we can wait because that seems like a move that we would probably say something different about once we find out about subsequent moves if there are any.

Right.

You cannot analyze the Strowman trade without knowing the next, well, you could, but probably without knowing the next couple days.

You can only entertain the people by making a fool of yourself with preemptive declarations.

Yes.

So we're going to choose not to do the foolhardy thing.

You mentioned the Garrett Cole strikeout fun fact that was going around.

This was that he was the second fastest player to get to 200 strikeouts in a season by paintings,

which is literally exactly the same as strikeout, per nine, except that you've changed per nine to like a different, well, I guess you flipped the denominator and the numerator.

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