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Hello and welcome to episode 1444 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast from

band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberg of the

Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN and O'San. You don't sound well. Nope as

people can probably tell the postseason is taking its call. I have come down with

A-cold and I'm gonna try to gut through it. So apologies to everyone for

inflicting my stuffiness on your ears today but it won't be as much of my

voice as usual because we will be talking to Rob Arthur later in the

episode. Rob of course wrote for baseball perspectives the study that brought a

ton of attention to the baseball and he showed very convincingly that the

difference in how the ball is carrying and how home runs are being hit this

postseason. It's not just the weather, it's not just better pitching, it is the

ball, it's the drag of the ball and that controversy has continued to royal in

the last few days Jeff pass in the latest to write about it now for ESPN. So we'll

get into all of that with Rob and why it's happening and what we can expect to see

next but we've got a bit of baseball to talk about so ALCS game 4 is

rained out so we're actually gonna get an episode up before another game is

played for once but we did have ALCS game 3 and we had NLCS game 4 and just

after we said that you should never predict a postseason sweep the

nationals swept the Cardinals and now we know one of the World Series teams and

now the Mariners are the only MLP franchise never to have made a World Series

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