Good morning, and welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily baseball

prospectus podcast. The date is Wednesday, August 15th. The show is episode

number 21. In New York, as usual, I am Ben Lindbergh. In Long Beach, as always,

he has literally never left Long Beach, California. It is my co-host, Sam Miller. Sam, I

occasionally listen to other podcasts, and I've noted that other podcasts host almost

without fail tell their listeners how great the show is going to be.

Interesting. We never proclaim our greatness at the beginning of the show. I think we should

start saying that we're going to be great. I don't think that we could pull it off without...

You don't think we could sound convincing? No, I mean, I think if you want to ironically proclaim

our greatness in my work, but I mean you and I are two of the most doer unself assured people I've

ever met. Maybe we'll try to work it into an intro. One of these days. Yeah, I did. Well,

and I think in our second episode, I made a comment about how we had quickly become the number

one sports podcast on iTunes, and I did get an email from a relative of mine congratulating me.

Sincerely, congratulations. Yes, so we fell for that as well, and she was very disappointed to find

out that she was not dating the number one sports podcast on iTunes. Well, just imagine how

disappointed she'll be if we proclaim that this is going to be a great show, and it turns out to

not be a great show. Okay, so it's going to be a show. It will probably be a show. It will

be a lot like our previous shows, and if you think those were great, then this will also be great.

I like them in retrospect for the most part. I mean, as long as we're being honest here,

and self-evaluating, I think I do like the show. I've enjoyed the shows. I listened to them. I'm

a regular listener. I just never think that the next one's going to be worth anything, and I don't

feel like making false promises. Have you rated and reviewed us? I have not. I have not officially

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