She was searching for the writer of a song that made her shiver

She listened over and over on her wall

Command her soul, she said, come as me late in the mud

For a little while I want to see my fiber in you little child

Hello and welcome to episode 1587 on effectively wild a fan grab space ball podcast brought to you by our patreon supporters

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan grabs and joined as always by Ben Lumber, the rare, Ben Hower you?

Pretty good, how are you?

I'm tired, but I am wild. It's kind of a constant when we do our Friday Puts with both of us I guess, definitely with you.

Yeah, it's like hey, spend a whole week and now I'm ready to be done with the week, but always happy to talk to you Ben.

Likewise, yes, so I have a follow up to something we talked about last week when we dissected Clayton Kershaw's second

Hancock tire commercial, the one where he's on the mound and he's mulling over which pitches to throw and for some reason he considers throwing a change up to lefties

Which he almost never does in real life and we were wondering well, why would they write this into the commercial or why would Kershaw okay it?

Wouldn't he say to someone, hey, I wouldn't actually be thinking of throwing a change up to lefties here and maybe they would change the script or something

And we just figured well, I guess he doesn't care that much. He's just kind of caching the check and he'll just say whatever the script tells him to say

But we got a theory here from listener Joe that I had not considered and he says I recall a tale that Greg Maddox would allow a batter to really rip one off him during spring training in order to set him up for the regular season

What if that Clayton Kershaw Hancock tire change up is like way way deeper than the Greg Maddox story?

What if Kershaw thinks that Juan Soto will remember the commercial and think oh he's considering throwing me a change up here and then he gets locked up on a fastball or completely fooled by the slider

And I had not thought about this but maybe Kershaw outthought us and outthought everyone and he just put this out there to try to confuse batters

And maybe it's working because he has a 1.5 ERA right now and he's coming off yet another strong start could be because of the tire commercial

So then the question becomes does he have any actual conviction about the quality of of Hancock tires or did he simply see an opportunity to fool us all

And this was just the vehicle and maybe he prefers a different tire brand entirely but they didn't ask him to come on

And he's like well this is my opportunity to plant a tiny seed of doubt

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