All right, fine, I'll be a dwarf, but my name is Carlos.

Carlos said dwarf.

Good morning and welcome to episode 159 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective.

In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh in Long Beach, California.

You are Sam Miller.

Before we start on today's topic, we have, I guess, I don't know if it's an errors

in a mission segment, but it's a follow-up to something we talked about yesterday.

Yeah, I think it's an error, or certainly it's a clarification.

Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

So yesterday we talked about why position players, the people who didn't hear yesterday

are going to wonder how we possibly talked about position players blocking on play yesterday,

but we did.

And I said that something about physics and how the fielder who tried to block the plate

would have the worst of it if runner ran into him because of physics.

And gentlemen named Paul wanted to clarify that Newton has actually taken care of this

for us and that the runner has no advantage over the catcher because he is, quote, running.

The force exerted on the catcher by the runner in a collision is exactly the same force

that is exerted on the runner by the catcher to stop the runner.

So yeah, so I just want to, yeah, we should note that seems to be correct, which I think

both of us had heard at some point in our lives, but didn't internalize.

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