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The first two refinish and the last two stars. The first two refinish and the last two stars.

Hello and welcome to episode 1881 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Benlundberg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs Hello, Mac.

Hello.

Did you see the tweet which was much shared? I believe it was from Sunday and it was tweeted by StatsPerforms Twitter account at StatsByStats.

Now we'll read you this, I suppose it is a purported fun fact. There have been over 10,000 days in MLB history with 10 or more games.

Today is the only one of those where nobody hit two plus homers in a game, nobody had two plus still in bases in a game, nobody scored three plus runs in a game, nobody threw a complete game, no team scored 10 plus runs in a game, and no team won via walkoff.

Did you notice that just watching games on Sunday? Did you just pick up on that fact where you're just thinking to yourself, you know what?

Nobody has hit two plus homers in a game, nobody has stolen two more bases in a game, nobody scored three or more runs in a game, and these nobody's by the way referred to individual players when it means a team stat, then it specifies that.

This is, I've been thinking about this one ever since I saw it, but I guess for multiple reasons, one, how did they think to look at this? I guess it's my first question.

We have so many qualifiers here, so someone like I won an oral history of how this tweet was written and tweeted because someone had to notice, like did they have like an automatic subroutine that runs every day to check to see whether this is finally the day.

With 10 plus games where nobody does this and that or did somebody just looking at the box scores, realized, nobody had two plus homers, nobody had two plus so bases, then they just like kept adding on more and more and more conditions because it's like, up, there was another day where everyone did all but two of these things. Well, let's add another qualifier, maybe no team won via walkoff. Let's toss that into the stew. Okay.

Oh, that wasn't enough. No team scored 10 plus runs of the game. Are we there yet? Did we get it? Yes, finally. So we have individual hovers in the game, stolen bases in the game, run scored in a game, complete games, 10 runs for a team or more and walkoff.

So this is six different events, six different qualifiers that have to be satisfied here for this to happen or for all these things not to happen. So I'm just kind of gobsmacked by this one because I just can't imagine the process that led to this being discovered.

Yeah, I'm just like reckoning with how long it took you to read that tweet.

Yeah, they used all the characters here. Yeah, I was just about to say, I am not convinced that they did not defy the character limit on Twitter in order to tweet that. I mean, I know you can abbreviate some of those things, but they didn't well, I mean, I guess they did. They abbreviated stolen bases to SP complete games was CG and hovers was HR. So yes, they did. But if I just plug this into a character counter.

Huh, I'm being told here it was 277 characters. That doesn't seem possible. Wait a minute. Hold on. So they were like, okay, so here's what they, here's what I'm given to understand from this tweet. I'm given to understand that they have the ability to break Twitter. And the way that they decided to use that was not to take it down permanently, but to tweet that fun fact.

I think 279 characters from a different character. I have a grievance. I think I am demanding restitution. I am here to say that I will run on a platform of no more spam calls, no more ridiculous tweets. And I will win.

I will win, Ben. I don't know what I'm running for, but whatever it is, I'm going to win. Twitter's up to 280 now, right? So I don't know. It's too many. Yeah, you probably shouldn't even test that limit. But it's too 80. So right, right.

Right, a blog, you know, when you're getting up there, it's like go right a blog, Brent. Or just leave this one in the drafts potentially. But it's too long.

I think there were somewhere between one and three characters underneath the limit. So they just snuck in under the wire there doesn't mean that they should have, but they could have and they did. And if you are the author of this tweet, please email us and just let us know how this came to your attention.

Alarms go off at the stats office like it's finally the day we've been waiting for it's like that. It's like that gift from the office. Yeah, right. People are running for the doors that people are sliding down fire people.

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