I'm getting you and spring me forward

I'm getting you and spring me forward

Hello and welcome to episode 1423 of Effectively Wilded

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I am Ben Rembert of the Ringer with Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam.

Ben, are you doing the same?

See wrote an article about a time machine on Wednesday

and you picked your six top destinations if you had a time machine that could only take you to baseball games in the future.

Yeah, just to be clear the sixth, the sixth is the return trip.

Yeah, basically unless you're willing to step off and live in the future, then the sixth is required to go.

So it's five. The frame was around five.

Did you have a lot of just missed options here?

I want to hear about that. Also, I want to hear about whether you would actually take any of these trips if you could.

Because I'm not sure that I would.

I would take the first one. The first one you picked was Game 4 of the 2019 series, which is just a purely money-making venture.

You just go into the future, you learn some stuff, then you come back and you play some bets and you get rich.

And maybe you can place a bet while you're there too and you get to see some stuff, but it doesn't spoil too much.

And it's just a utilitarian trip.

So that one, yes. But your next pick was Mike Traut's final game.

And I do not think I would want to go see Mike Traut's final game if I had the option to.

Because Mike Traut's career is probably the storyline that I like best about baseball, at least the one that persists across seasons right now.

And that would sort of spoil it for me. I would not want to see how it ends.

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