Anything is fair game even keycase dirty pants and maybe if you're lucky

will co-call by the chance you never know precisely where it's going to go by definition

effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2229 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast from

Fangraf's presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lintberg of the

Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of fan fan graphs. Hello Meg.

Hello.

So we led our last episode by talking about Carlos Estevas

predicting two home runs that his fellow Phillies hit.

This time, I have to open with an email we got from listener

Patreon supporter Johnny who wrote in to say do you think Carlos Estevas

predicted he would give up a grand slam to Francisco indoor. And I was wondering, you know, we were talking about exploring new

horizons of player predictions. Has a player ever predicted that they would give up a home run or that one of their teammates

would because we so often hear that someone predicted that a teammate of theirs would hit a home run.

But what about the flip side?

It stands to reason, to the extent that any of this is rational,

that players who are blessed with four knowledge

of their own team's home runs might also be cursed with occasional

four knowledge of the opposing team's home runs. So do you think that happens and it's

just that we don't hear about it so much because you're less

likely to blab about it to a reporter afterward and say yeah I called the

opposing teams oh right or if you're Carlos Estevas to come out and say, yeah, I had a feeling that Francisco

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