Hello. What? What did you say? I just plugged in my mic as you started talking.

It's a hello. Oh. Okay. Probably should have just assumed that. Good morning and

welcome to episode 226 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective. I am Ben Lindbergh joined as always by Sam Miller. How are you, Sam? Good

Ben. How are you? Okay. I was nice to talk to you. Yeah. I was doing somebody by

the way I was on a podcast the other day and somebody. Yes. And somebody in the

comments said it was nice to hear Sam talk so enthusiastically for so long. A lot

of times on Effectively Wild, it sounds by the end that he's ready to call it a day.

Which is true. I am literally ready to call it a day. It is the end of my day. And I

would say that if you're listening with even the smallest bit of attention, you will

hear that same tone in my voice at the beginning of the show. Well, I was that

actually ties into what I was going to say, which is that I was doing some research on

our show length. And there's a startling trend. As the person who makes the

podcast post and puts the timestamps on them every day, I've kind of watched this

evolve over time. And I've been hesitant to bring it up because I don't want to

draw your attention to it because I'm afraid that there will be some short of

backlash once I actually put it out there. But our average show length in our

first 10 episodes was 15 minutes and 18 seconds. And in our five minutes and 18

seconds of which was me complaining that we were going home. Yeah, probably.

There were a couple like 12 minute episodes in there, which is like how long it

takes us to start talking about it now. That was so the plan. That was the

plan. So much what I want to. But the average for our last 10 episodes,

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