One more game, one more chance One more op, a stank test song and dance

The upfront and speakers be sent as far as I can

To put their heads together and try to make the night of wine

And it's right on this time to make it smooth on its time to turn it all away

So we place now in the shade

Good morning and welcome to episode 1588 of Effective is Wild

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I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer and Ben you have something you want to say

Yeah just a couple of quick things

First wanted to mention but of course we bust another Hall of Famer over the weekend

Lou Brock shortly after the passing of Tom Seever

And one of the first things I did when I saw the news about Brock was to go look up their

Better versus picture stats as I think a few other people did

And as others have noted they were each other's most common opponent

So they faced each other I think 157 times

Brock was the most common batter Seever ever faced

Seever was the most common pitcher Brock ever faced

And Seever definitely got the best of it

He had a 636 OPS allowed against Brock which was not much different from his 626 OPS allowed career against everyone

So he kind of had the upper hand in their head to head match up

But they were kind of linked in that sense and also in the sense that they were both Nicknamed the franchise

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