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Hello and welcome to episode 1701 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grapzed baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Relly of FanGraphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben

How are you?

Doing alright, we just asked each other how our long weekends were, so should we maintain

the facade that we are just beginning our conversation on this podcast and say how was your

long weekend and then have that exchange again?

Sure, let's do it, Ben, how was your long weekend?

It was quite restful, thank you, how was yours?

It was the same, thank you so much for asking.

That's great.

Well, we will talk about some of the baseball that happened over the long weekend, a little

bit of news, a little bit of feedback from previous discussions, maybe a few emails that

were left over from last time.

I wanted to start by asking you about this little tidbit that I found in a game story

that was pointed out by Craig Calcutta and this is about the Brewers and Tigers game

on Monday, which ended in a walkoff win for the Brewers, they won 3-2 in 10 innings.

And so here's how the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Game Story starts.

How certain was Luis Aureus that he was going to win the game Monday, certain enough that

he told teammate Willie Adamis before he went ahead and did it.

Before the inning, when we were going to the dugout, he said, I'm going to walk it off.

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