Come to tell you all nonsense straight

When I've got no chance to lose it, it's sad

And I've got no chance to lose it, it's sad

And I've got no chance to lose it, it's sad

Hello and welcome to episode 1710 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast for band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I am the member of the ringer, Meg Raleigh is off for a few days, she'll be back later this week

I will be joined by a few guests and later in this episode, I'll be talking to Jimmy Buffy, the biomechanics expert that mechanized both 2-1 at the episode 16-01

This time I'll be talking to him about Weather Tyler Glassnell has a point about the lack of sticky stuff in danger in pictures and whether I worry too much about Jacob DeGrom

And after that I will also be joined by Graham Stinson, a picture in the Tampa Bay Ray system who gave me his thoughts on the Foreign Substance Band

And what the new experimental rules have done to the running game in Abal before telling me about the Stats company that he recently started Stats Stack

But we like to start with a bit of banter and it is tough to banter by oneself

So to kick things off, I am joined by the great Mike Farron of MLB Network Radio and the Arizona Diamondbacks broadcast crew

Hello Mike, welcome back

Well I often banter by myself but that's because my wife is tired of pulling out putting them on my crap and so I end up spending most of the time talking to myself

Well I am happy to have you on to talk to me today and I am looking forward to talking to you but I also feel a little bit filthy about asking you to come on because I mistakenly thought that the Diamondbacks were off today

Monday is when we're speaking which is not the case

We have Milwaukee for the first of three tonight so yeah so I feel a little bit better about that at least I'm not making you talk about the Diamondbacks on a day when you wouldn't have had to

Yeah but I am still making you talk about them more than you would have to otherwise and I don't know where to begin with the Diamondbacks

You've shared the stats but for anyone who has not followed what is going on with them

On May 3rd everything seems normal everything seemed fine the Diamondbacks were 15 and 13 they had outscored their opponents to that point in the season

I don't know that anyone thought they were a great team or even a playoff team but a competitive team seemingly since then they have lost 40 of 45 games 31 of 33

Including an MLB record 23 consecutive road losses and now 17 consecutive losses overall and that's the most since Seattle lost 17 in a row in 2011

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