There's a election, there's a election, there's a election

Time of all, when it's what she is, time of all, when it's what she is, time of all, when it's what she is

There's a election, there's a election, there's a election

Time of all, when it's what she is

Hello and welcome to Planet Earth, a debacle

and also episode 1578 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrafts

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangrafts Hello Meg

Hello

So we've got good news if you're a Cardinals fan, your team is about to play baseball again

So much baseball

Yeah, I know and they will make up for it if I never not playing baseball for the remainder of the season

It's um, look, I guess we're doing this and it is probably best from a, well I don't even know if I've played baseball

I don't even know if I believe what I'm about to say Ben, I'm going to say it and then we can assess if I actually believe it

I guess it is best from a competitive sort of integrity perspective for them to endeavor to play as many games as they can

But they have to play so many games in such a short period of time

Here's the rundown, they will play 21 games in August, they will play four double headers

It is August 14th, they will play 21 games in August

And it is August 14th as we sit here and record this from the planet earth

Yeah, they last played on July 29th, they got what, five games in, and Jack Plierty hasn't started since opening day

Yeah, and then they will play 32 games in September, including seven double headers

Jay Jaffee did the math when he did an update to his update on the cardinals for fan grass

They will average 10.8 innings per day, assuming of course that nothing goes to extras

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