So we change, but we don't do change, but we must change, but we'll again.

Good morning and welcome to episode 1419 of Effectively Wild, baseball podcast,

bandwrefs.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I am Sam Miller, ESPN,

along with Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Hi, I've been. Ben, I want to banter about the

Bill Walton and also might sure broadcasts of White Talks Angels games this weekend.

Yeah, but I don't want to just, I mean, I don't want to just talk about it. I don't want to just

be like, ah, do you hear that funny thing? I thought we should actually, if we're going to banter, we should banter

with with Jason Bonetti. He's our friend, right? Yeah. So he, I told him we might call him. So let's just

call him. Like he's not a guest. He's just part of the banter, right? Just want to be clear. Sure.

I emailed with him about these games, but I'd like to talk to him about it. Sounds fun. All right, Jason. Hello.

You went viral this weekend. I feel okay, but I, it might have just been a cold.

Uh-huh.

You learn that, you learn that quick thinking from Bill Walton or from Mike Sure.

So it's, it's kind of wide range of quick thinking that I've been a part of as couple of days.

It was awesome. This weekend was just ridiculous and wild and insane and, ah, truly amazingly fun.

Yeah. So let's back up what, whose idea was this? So back, so let's back up further.

You are the white socks play by play broadcaster for TV broadcasts. And, ah, your color commentator

this weekend on Friday was, was NBA legend Bill Walton. And on Saturday was good place creator, Mike Sure.

And many other things, but Mike Sure, legend of the internet. So they did the color commentator.

They were in the booth with you not for a half inning as often happens with like, say, Michael Milken or, ah, the, ah, you know, GM.

But for the whole game, right, from first pitch to last.

Yeah, they were in the booth, the whole game. And Sunday, by the way, we had Michael Bryant, the creator of AP Bio on NBC.

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