I find a person I need in my lifeх a woman.

So you live in mansion and then get the punishment.

Hello and welcome to episode 1490 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from bandwraps presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN, Los Sam.

Hey, shall we follow up on our knives out discussion from the previous episode?

We got some info from a listener.

No spoilers here, just a brief follow up on the way that we started the previous episode,

which was you made a case for the Ryan Johnson movie knives out being a baseball movie based

on the baseball that is in it and your interpretation of that baseball significance.

So we got an email.

This is from Joseph, who says to help settle the baseball debate in knives out, we can turn

to the director's commentary Johnson released while the movie is still in theaters.

At around 2130 he speaks for about 30 seconds on the edition of the baseball.

I've attached a rough quotation below.

The whole thing with the baseball, I needed a way to get Linda back to the office to see

the note and I think it was in prep.

I came up with it.

I like the idea of karmic justice that if it were not for Don's petty little act of aggression

in chucking the baseball, Linda would have never found the note.

Unfortunately it doesn't mention the obvious playing catch hook of a baseball that Sam

hypothesized and the commentary ensures that it is at most the third most important aspect

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