When does one begin? When you can't tell where you've been? Where's the parallel?

With our schedule in hand, plot to move across this land, it's a carousel.

Keep it track of our context, our witchonder, our we vex.

Does history or vanity decide?

Good morning and welcome to episode 1440 Effectively Wild.

This is Paul podcast with fangraphs.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I am Sam Miller of ESPN, Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer and Ben.

We're going to talk about the playoffs. I have to admit something.

I'm two shows behind, two games behind.

I have, yeah, I've been watching games on delay for a couple of days and I have not caught up yet.

And so as a little experiment or something, I was hoping you could tell me what happened in the Dodgers Nationals game

and what happened in the Twins Yankees games.

I would like to hear how you describe a baseball game.

You're going to have to explain this to me.

You're watching the playoffs on a delay.

What? Why?

You know, I don't have cable and MLB TV subscription does not include the postseason.

And so I can listen to games. I have three options. Basically I can listen to games.

I can watch them about an hour and a half to two hours after they end on MLB TV.

Or I can find some sort of scary stream online that I always feel a little nervous about.

And so usually I do the listening thing and then like a sort of a combination of the listening and the watching after the fact.

And so in the last couple days, I have been because there have been so many games and I've wanted to see some of the early games.

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