I'm I think I'm on on record as being a fan. So yeah, you're on record as being a fan of the crickets

I recall you were one of the early pro cricket votes

That's exactly right and now whenever I would who was which one of you was in the car again one of me was a fan

So yeah, I was I was in the car

I've you need to get back in the car

That was the the whole charm of this podcast was you in the in the car

Good morning, and welcome to episode 200 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball prospectus

I am Ben Lindbergh joined by sam miller as always

every 100 episodes or so we

Contact someone more interesting than we are and ask them to come onto the show and talk for a while

And today that person is will leech a senior writer at sports on earth contributing editor at New York magazine the founder of deadspin

An author of actual books printed on on paper, I believe

Uh, and uh, so we're we're happy to have him with us today. Thank you for joining us will

Oh, please. I'm I'm very honored. I am such a regular listener of the program that I remember

I remember the time that you guys forgot that the Astros were in the ALS

Well, that's actually how much I've listened to the show so it's every time I'm on

I'm a big podcast listener and now I've started my own

It's literally just to like try to pretend to be like the podcast that I already listened to so like every time I'm on a podcast

I listen to all the time. I always feel like I'm like visiting

Like the characters on my favorite cartoon

Like I'm just like popping in it's like that twilight zone episode where you uh the one for the movie where you could go

The the kid could put the people in the cartoon and have it

...