Going outside, shoveling snow in the driveway, driveway

taking our shoes, riding a sleigh down the hillside, hillside.

Hello and welcome to episode 1758 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Aig Relie, a fangrass, and I am joined today by John Taylor, also a fangrass. Hello John.

Hello Meg. How are you? I am doing well, how are you?

I'm doing okay, I imagine I'm doing less well than you are just by virtue of the fact that you're a Boston Red Sox fan.

I am, and well I mean I'm doing okay in the grander sense of yay they won hooray, deeply spoiled child gets another toy.

Lessso in the fact that I had forgotten because the Red Sox obviously they won the World Series in 2018,

but that was an oddly drama free run with the exception of the final game against the Yankees in the Division series,

and then that excruciating ninth inning against the Astros during the LCS that Andrew Ben and Tendi saved when Craig Kimberl was melting down.

And then before that they hadn't been to the post, they had been one of World Series in 2013, and post season appearances had been kind of intermittent and mostly forgettable.

So I'd forgotten what that anxiety was like of, oh it's a tie game in the ninth inning to determine whether or not my team moves on.

Right, this isn't bad for my heart at all. Also, I kind of recognize when I asked how are you doing, I'm asking the editor in chief of a baseball website in October.

How are you doing? I should just expect the answer is I don't have lungs anymore.

I mean I have lungs, the number of like, I don't have.

Yeah, awake brain cells might be, might be more suspect at this particular moment. It's funny, like you know, and it's not as if you have not also been busy in this in this last stretch.

There's something nice about knowing very predictably when your busiest times of year are going to be, you know, it's like you're in a accountant during tax season.

You know, you're going to be tired. You might have some preemptive trepidation about that. It's definitely stressful and a lot of work.

But it's also, you know, I would submit to you that the playoffs are a lot more fun than taxes.

I mean, I personally, I mean, I love taxes. I love going out forms. I love having to find forms. I love spending money so that more money can be taken from me.

Right, right. But otherwise, yes, I, but I get what you're saying though, because like for me, I generally, and this is now just something I've, you know, because I've been amazingly known baseball media for quite a bit.

So I've just gotten used to telling people in October, hey, you're not going to see her here for me for like four straight weeks.

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