Stuck chasin' away, stuck chasin' away

Let your puny body lie down, lie down, as will I you say

As will I you say

Stuck chasin', stuck chasin' away, stuck chasin' away

Let your puny body lie down, lie down, lie down

And welcome to episode 1885, active wild, a baseball podcast of band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of FanGrafts, hello, Meg.

Hello.

What's this you say about Clayton Kershaw and a back problem? What is happening here?

Well, Ben.

We are recording at 2.35pm Pacific 5.35pm Eastern time on Thursday, August 4th.

I'm saying that as much to anchor our discussion right now as I am to anchor myself, because I will tell you, pretty tired from the deadline still, but I am given to understand that Clayton Kershaw left his start against the Giants after throwing a couple of warm-up pitches, I believe in the fifth inning, and the Giants broadcast caught him saying,

it's my back, so that seems unsurprising.

It's not the best that we're prisoners to our bones, and all of the gooey stuff around them that keeps them in a meat sack.

Yeah, listeners to our special bonus Patreon pods will have heard that I'm anti-warming up, so that's working well.

Oh yeah.

He warmed up.

No, wait a minute, Ben, no, I'm not going to let you spread your anti-warming up propaganda.

I'm telling you, there's a scientific basis, not for baseball players, though I do think probably professional athletes can warm up.

I think they should warm up their arms if they are major league pitchers.

Yeah, acceptable in that case.

I'm talking about weekend warriors like us if we could even describe ourselves that way, but I don't like backs, backs are bad.

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