How can I have never needed such a cold heart to count on?

And how can I have ever wanted such a cold shoulder to cry on?

Hello and welcome to episode 1445 of Effectively Wild of Fangrafts baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rally of Fangrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the

Ringer who sounds a little bit better than how are you? A little bit better. Yeah, I'm on the path to recovery.

Oh, I'm glad to hear that. Sorry, bud. Thank you. I mean, I'm sorry that you're ill. I'm glad you're on the path to recovery.

You know, the sequencing on that. You want the illness to linger? No, I do not. The sequencing on that was not ideal.

The playoffs makes, you know, swish cheese brains of us all, I suppose. Yes, and congested.

Everything. But I promise to be back to full health by November 21st. Oh, because we have an exciting event. Fangrafts live.

I promise I won't yell at our attendees, but I will be similarly enthusiastic. Yes, Fangrafts is coming to New York. In November, we recognize that the winter months are said and that we all miss baseball.

And so what better time to talk about baseball than when there is no baseball happening?

So November 21st, several members of the Fangraft staff, including me, will be trekking to New York and you and I will be emceeing a very fun event at subculture.

And tickets are on sale now at Fangrafts.com. We will be joined by Jay Jaffy and Craig Edwards and Eric Long and Hagan and Kylie McDaniel.

And then also several friends of the site, including Lindsay Adler and Mark Kerrig of the athletic and Mike Petriello of MLB.com for a fun evening of baseball talk.

And if you are not in the greater New York area and unable to join us that evening, don't worry. We will also be releasing it as an episode of effectively wild.

Yeah, quite a lineup. This is fun. Yeah, it should be. It should be a good time. So we'll link to the event announcement when this goes live. But get your tickets now.

Yeah, tickets are going fast. I assume I don't actually have any idea whether tickets are going, but yeah, I assume that they will.

I assume that with that lineup, they will, even if people have to suffer through me for three panel sessions. So that'll be fun. And in other us talking to you news, we do have a couple of playoff live streams for our Patreon supporters coming up. So if the Yankees can manage to win a game and extend the ALCS, we and so we will be back to the event.

And the ALCS, we and Sam will be doing that on Saturday for ALCS game six. And if they don't win and if the Astros close it out on Friday, then we will pick a couple world series games to talk to you during. So you can sign up on Patreon. I think there is a level for access to those live streams. There is also a different higher level that gets you access to a free fan graphs ad free membership, which in turn gets you discounts on this fan graphs live.

Yes, all connected wheels within wheels, wheels within wheels. I should say yes, if you are a fan graphs member, you get 25% off all the tickets you purchase as long as you're logged in when you purchase. So yeah, all right. So we have a baseball game to talk about before we get to some emails, maybe and some baseball news. So the Yankees were defeated in game four, eight to three. And it was not a pretty loss for them.

It went south in a number of ways. I guess any loss that they could have sustained at this point in the LCS would have been pretty devastating given what faces them now because going into game five, they are facing Justin Verlander in New York. And then if they survive that challenge, they would have to win back to back games in Houston, including a Garrett Cole start. They would have to be the first team to beat the Astros with Garrett Cole starting since the game.

Starting since July going back 16 starts of his so tall order tall order. Yes. So on Thursday, the game was ugly in the late innings for most of the game. It was not really it was just the Astros being good and beating the Yankees and doing so at their own game, hitting a couple of three run homers.

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