Howdy and welcome to episode 224 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseballperspectus.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Linberg. Ben, how are you doing?

Very well. Great. Good to hear. What do you want to talk about today? I want to

do a home run derby draft. All right. And I want to talk about barbecue sauce.

So who should go first with these two wonderful topics? You, I guess, actually.

All right. Can I ask one quick question? I read a thing about football today,

which was weird. It was just an excerpt from an article about how NFL clubs are

allowed by league rules to have two star players. They designate two star players

who only have to speak to the media once per week. So the patriots have Brady

and Tibo to equally talented quarterbacks at designated as their stars who

speak to the media once a week. And I was wondering if there is a reason for

baseball teams to do that. I don't think so. Okay. I think I think baseball is

a lot different than football. I think baseball is a lot different than football.

Let me go into it. Let me go into it. Let me go into a long time.

No, baseball, something happens every day. A lot happens every day.

And there's not, I don't think there's really quite the risk of over analysis of baseball.

There's a risk of over abundance of baseball, but not over analysis.

I mean, you genuinely do have seven, seven new events every day that need to be

talked about. And in football, there's only, you know, there's only one game a week.

And, you know, nothing, nothing happens between Sunday and Sunday that would require you

to be available to the media more than that. I mean, really, I mean, just as much

over analysis of baseball. I mean, just the fact that, well, I don't know, I don't actually

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