Well, it's moments like these that make you ask,

how can you not be pedantic about baseball?

If baseball were different, how different would it be

on the case with light ripp all analytically cross check and

compile find a new understanding not effectively while that can you not

be fanatic yes when it I like can you not be pedantic?

Yes, when it comes to baseball, how can you not be pedantic?

Hello and welcome to episode 2157 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I make Rowley and fan graphs and

I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Well I hate to say this because I hate to inflict this topic of discussion on anyone but I think we have to talk about the white socks. Dude. Yeah. I think we do. I think we've got to go there.

I think we've got to go there.

Sometimes this early in the season, you can't help a feeling like,

I'm overreacting to stuff, you know?

I'm making too much of it. They'll turn it around.

Ben, I don't think they are gonna, you know, when you're like getting excited because actually a team's base run records

indicates that they should have won, they should have won five games.

Yeah, they should be five and 20. Like you're in you're in

territory that should embarrass some folks and I feel bad when we have these conversations because I appreciate that like they're very real

human beings whose livelihoods depend on this going better than it is, some of whom I think are probably smart baseball

minds and are doing their best but um oh boy Ben I I, okay.

The question is how much better will it get?

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