I'm thinking of doing a uh cricket death count this year. Yeah. I've uh I've killed three but

that I mean that's just uh that's just a taste. I mean I I assume I will get to a thousand so I'm

thinking of like actually buying it and buying a whiteboard and putting it. It's spring training

for cricket killing. Good morning and welcome to episode 170 of effective

Wild The Daily Podcast from baseballperspectus.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and we're

joined today by Jason Parks who has had one heck of a month with us. He did 30 top tens for us. He

did a top 101 for us and today you're able to read his organizational rankings at our site

and he's about to launch a new podcast. So we're going to talk about those things and then we're

going to pivot to a question that I have for him that I had for him. So Jason how are you?

I am well thank you for having me on your show. You're welcome anytime. If in fact I if you it's not

too late to cancel your plans to have a podcast and you could just take ours.

Yeah it'd be great man I totally do that. I'm not going to do it every day that I'm making

it like once a week. So yeah I mean we tell what's your what's your what's what's the idea behind

this? What's what's the theme of your next podcast going to be? So the idea behind it is our boss

Johan Ronnie telling me that I probably need to be another podcast and it's not putting it off

and to do something productive that will help both DP and other people who are friends with DP

and I was reluctant because I didn't want to do the show in the first place. The podcast I did

with Kevin was kind of a you know we Kevin and I were just good friends. It just happened to

like their talk shop and talk other stuff and it just happened to work and I'm glad I did

because he kind of propelled me in a different direction but I didn't want to jump back into that

because I'm not friends with that many people and I didn't want to go through it again.

I happen to be good friends with my parents. We both have an equal

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