No, we don't know if this will live

So we're gonna build

No, we don't know if this will live

Our own legends we gonna build

Statues of ourselves

Whoa, we gonna build

Statues of ourselves

Hello and welcome to episode 1659 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Aigralia Bagras and I joined as always by Ben Lemberga the Ringer, Ben Hower Yo

Super well, I saw on Twitter that Fernando Tatis Jr. in addition to his many other talents has now invented some baseball lingo

Did you see that Phil Shaken of the LA Times tweeted a comment that Tatis had made about his contract

So I'll read the tweet here for an endo Tatis Jr. introduced a new term to contract lingo quote statue contract

Oh

Tatis was saying that the contract he signed the extension is a statue contract

So in the Padres context bills tweet continues it means playing long enough to earn a statue alongside Tony Gwynne and Trevor Hoffman

Who have statues so I like this? This is like yeah

This is like the opposite of the pillow contract the pillow contract is just when you want a soft landing

That's a Scott Boris Neologism where you just you take a one-year deal to rebuild your value

And then you hope to get the long term contract the next year

So at the opposite end of the spectrum is the statue contract where you sign up for the rest of your career

Or most of the rest of your career and you hope that at the end of it you have statues status with that franchise

I love that I think that's fantastic

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