But without doubt, the worst episode ever, rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes,

registering my disgust throughout the world. Good morning and welcome to episode 179

of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective. I am Ben Lindbergh with Sam Miller.

Sam Miller has a topic that we are going to talk about. I have not been surprised of this topic.

What's the topic?

Barry Zito and why he should sign an extension.

Ah, okay. This is related to a question we got, maybe possibly.

It's related to something in the ether.

Okay. All right, go.

Do you not have a topic?

Oh, should I? Are we doing two topics?

I mean, I thought that's what we do.

I don't know. Ben, what are we going to do? What are we going to do about this show?

Should we, we should hash out what the show is going to be?

Yeah, probably.

All right.

What do you think? Do you like the two topic ideas, the two topic format? Did you enjoy it last year?

I mean, it's more pressure on both of us to have to think of a topic every day and we both

enjoy not having to do that.

But it's, see, my theory on the whole show, my theory from the beginning was that if we have a

show that is short enough that that we can, that there's not too much pressure to talk deeply

about any one topic that it actually takes the pressure off.

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