Cricket. How about that? I don't even hear it. Yeah, I mean, I sort of hear it. It's

extremely faint. I wouldn't have noticed it. Now I hear it. That's loud. Good morning and

welcome to episode 166 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball,

perspective.com. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California, and in a place that he does not want

named is Ben Lindbergh. Hello. Ben, how are you? I'm very well. Thank you. I had a restful weekend.

Great. You noticed as soon as you came on the line that there's a cricket in the background.

Yes, although it seems to have gone quiet now that we've drawn attention to it, but I was excited

to hear it because I haven't heard a cricket for months since you exterminated all of last season's

surviving cricket. Well, it's like I said at the time, it's their seasonal, so it's the start of

a new season. See how it works. It's just sort of spring. Baseball. Yeah. Yeah. So you and I

today are going to talk about a piece on CBS Sports.com by baseball insider Danny Nobler.

And Danny is written about the Astros. And I think it's a good place to talk about this article

because a lot of times in on the internet, you don't want to bring too much attention to a

kind of story you don't like because then you just give it traffic, but we're not going to have

a link to it or anything. We're just going to be talking about it. I don't think anybody, I mean,

I'd be happy to tell you where to find it, but how many people are really going to go seek it out,

like six. So I feel like we can talk about this without giving it any extra traffic or love or

whatever. So this piece is about the Astros and it sort of frames the Astros, the current Astros

as an extension of the I guess culture war that none of us really feel exists all that much

between stats and scouts and says that the bloggers all think that the Astros are really good and that

the scouts think the Astros aren't very good. So congratulations, Ben, you're a scout.

All right. Well, then in that case, according to the article, I think that the overunder for the

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