Prayin' to someone

We meet again

Oh, I'd be a good boy

Please make me well

I promise you ain't a thing

Get me out of this hell

Come take me has got me

Oh, I wanna run

Hello and welcome to episode 1708 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from band grants presented by our

Patreons quarters. I am Benlyn Burke of the ring joined by a neck rally of fake best hello, Nick. Hello. Well, it is sticky stuff all the time

Yet again in pace follow this week and also on this episode

I think we will try to do something a little different next time if news allows but today more sticky stuff and later in this episode

We will be talking to an effectively wild listener Josh Beck who is studying criminology and he emailed us recently to point out some of the intersections

Between the story and his field and how the idea of deterrence in criminology might shape our thinking here about how this might play out

And it was an interesting email and we said well, why don't you just come on the show to talk about it

So we'll be talking to Josh a little later and I want to get into a few reactions to the actual announcement of the policies on Tuesday

But just briefly one thing I meant to mention last time there was another example of an effectively wild hypothetical coming true and happening in a major league baseball game

Which is that Jose Altuve hit a home run and did not do a home run trot which is a question that we fielded recently

Someone asked if eventually we would end up in a world where as is evidently the case in a lot of softball leagues home run hitters just don't take the trot

Whether to save time or because it might be seen as showing up the opponent eventually maybe the home run trot will be phased out and talked about that and about whether we thought that would ever happen

But it did happen here and the circumstances were strange of course, but this was Friday Altuve hit a home run at target field and it was a weird one where it hit off the foul pole but then it ricocheted from the foul pole to a nearby wall and then carrying back to the field

So it was kind of a tough call and the umpires called it foul at first and Altuve by then was rounding second he had made it that far and the umpires said nope foul and so he went back but then there was a replay review

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