obviously can look at you know things that are going to be per se unlucky and you know

visualize that in your head why it went that way but at the same time there are so many things

that came in between that I'm lucky hitting and what things that I could have control things that

could have done better. Good morning and welcome to episode 195 of effectively wild at the daily

podcast from baseballperspectus.com it's me Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh how are you doing Ben?

Okay so we each brought a topic and I don't know about you but it's gotten to the point after

195 episodes where when I start looking for a topic everything that I see that happens in

baseball I think well that's something we talked about already and we should mention it to update

yes already done. They've had that feeling more and more lately. Yeah so like today

Mani Machado is raking he's two for three with a walk he's now got something like a 900 OPS

he's on pace to hit 67 doubles he's a super super duper stock and so that would update what we talked

about on Tuesday and the Tigers and the Houston Astros are in the 13th and the Tigers right now

have gotten two men on with one out and Brian Pena struck out and the Astros might be about to get

out of it and so that would be like what we talked about on Wednesday when we talked about the joy

of extreme extra innings but alas we do have to come up with new topics so what if you brought

today. I have more like a question in a comment so I'm going to ask you something about bullpins

and then I'm going to just mention something about steroids and I want to talk about oh and the

Tigers got out the Astros got out of it so we're going to the bottom of the 13th so yeah we might

be up late tonight so I want to talk about your article about Marcus Goudreau that ran on Thursday

of baseball perspectives I also want to bring up something briefly that I observed today so if possible

I'm going to start with that yeah all over the place we are all over the place Friday it's loose

so today I watched Chris Medlin and I just want to I want to start with a caveat that I don't

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