You can tell that he was a little empty up. He doesn't usually miss with that many fastballs.

But, uh, well, he was effectively walked today, so it's good. Philosophical music

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effective. effectively while effectively. Effectively Wild, a fan grafts baseball

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and I am joined by Ben Lumburg of the ringer Ben how are you? I'm a a a

Ben Lumburg of the ringer Ben how are you?

I'm okay welcome back how are you thank you I'm doing well

thanks for mind in the store of course did you get to enjoy

skein's day as long as it lasted while you were away?

I absolutely did not get to enjoy it for even one moment.

I was in Colorado celebrating my grandmother's 80th birthday and we spent a Saturday moving a bunch of

furniture around so I was doing some heavy lifting and not a lot of baseball

viewing but that's okay.

Well you didn't miss that much he was in the words of his catcher Yasmai Grandahl

effectively wild and I did play a clip of Grandahl saying that at the start of this episode which I'm always

wary of doing because whenever we do that we then get notified by our listeners every time any announcer

anywhere says effectively wild about anyone and I

appreciate the thought and the effort to notify us about this thing.

We don't actually play that many clips of an answer saying effectively about because we would have way too many more

more even than we have episodes it's a pretty common phrase that's why we called the

podcast that's yeah so we we do it every now and then if someone actually mentions the

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