Yeah, although, you know, you get around that with online subscriptions to everything so I get the economist

It's the same day that people in London get it. So. Oh, come on that wasn't even subtle can

You know, did you know that there's best things going on in Indonesia? It's true

Because I read the economist

Good morning and welcome to episode 149 of effectively wilds the daily podcast from baseball

Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. We're joined by Ken Funk today to talk about the Milwaukee Brewers later in the show

Pete Barrett will talk to Mike Bowman of MLB dot com

Ken

We Ben and I I think it's

Probably something we talked about

Last summer when the Brewers traded Zach Rankine then went on a hot streak

How they were sort of in a kind of no man's land where they were

You know good enough that maybe they might have regretted giving up on the season as early as they did

they missed a playoffs by about five games and

But yet not really that good at the end of it either and this off season they did really maybe less than any other team in baseball

I think they're their biggest move with signing Kelvin Eskibar

So do you think that they are a team that is

That has a direction that it's going either

Toward or away from short-term contention or is this a team that's going to be sort of

Stuck in this confused purgatory for a few years and then have to rebuild

That's a good question. I honestly don't think that they're stuck in any sort of a purgatory and I think

That they have a plan

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