I'm so tired this mile today, squeak the chair once, take a deep breath, straighten my

tires, say, what's the damage?

Hello and welcome to episode 1529 of Effectively Wild of Fangirl Space Ball Podcast Brought

to your bio Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rally of Fangrass and I'm joined as always by Ben

Limberg of the Ring of Ben How are you?

I am doing well and we have the honor and pleasure to be joined now by a couple pals, because

we will be devoting the entire episode to an interview with them. They are the authors

of Future Value, the battle for baseball soul, and how teams will find the next superstar

brand new book, Kylie McDaniel, now of ESPN, formerly a Fangress, and Eric Langenhagen,

still of Fangrass have written this book together, so guys congrats on joining the co-authored

book club on behalf of myself and Sam Miller and Travis Satchek, we welcome you to the club.

I really enjoyed this book, learned a lot, had a lot of things that I thought I knew

sort of confirmed or reinforced, and I went to scout school several years ago, not to

brag or anything, if you guys need any pointers on scouting at any time, I can let you know

based on my extensive scout school experience, but scout school is sort of like the, I

stayed at a holiday in last night of learning things, like you learned some things, but it

was a two week program, and there's only so much you can learn in two weeks, but because

I blogged about that experience for Greatland, I still get people sometimes contacting me

to say, how can I go to scout school, and I have to say, well you can't because it doesn't

actually exist anymore, at least in that form, and also you had to be sponsored by a team,

so I don't know what to tell you, but I think if I get that question now, I will tell

them to go get future value, because it's basically scout school in book form except

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