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Good morning and welcome to episode 172 of effectively wild the daily podcast from

baseball perspectives.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Linberg.

Ben, did you watch baseball yesterday?

I did watch baseball.

What did you watch? What was your schedule?

I started out watching the Yankees game, but the Yankees game was awful.

So I just kind of switched around. I guess I probably watched most of the

Nats game or I watched more of the Nats game than any other one game, but I kind of just

had it on in the background while I was writing things and half paying attention to stuff.

Fun, good times.

All right, so today we're going to talk about our, well, I don't know, how do you want to phrase it?

Well, I was going to wish you a happy confirmation bias day because that is kind of how I think of

opening day. It's harmless, but we have all gone so long without watching baseball that when we

are finally exposed to baseball again, we kind of, I think, I don't know, maybe read too much into

it or all the things that we've expected to happen for the last few months. Some of them do happen

on opening day, and we kind of take that as confirmation of how we thought certain teams or

players would do. And if it were any other game during the regular season, we probably wouldn't

make much of it at all. So, I don't know, there are already a lot of posts up about the internet,

on the internet, about things that people thought would happen that happened already and how it

means something. So we, I guess, just kind of thought we'd go over a couple, maybe.

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