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Good morning and welcome to episode 235 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective.

I am Ben Lindbergh joining me as always is Sam Miller.

How are you? How are you feeling? How's your health?

Feeling quite poorly. Thank you.

And you're probably feeling even worse because our worst nightmare just came true.

I think we once decided that if we ever recorded a full episode and it didn't record for whatever

reason, we would just quit. We would just never do the show again because it would be that depressing.

And that just happened. We just did a half hour show and I opened up the recording and it was just

me followed by long stretches of silence when Sam was talking.

Which is odd because normally it's just me followed by long stretches of near silence

when I'm talking. Yeah. So what's the plan here?

So I guess we'll just summarize what we talked about. I feel like I can't go through with

like pretending that we didn't talk about all this. We can't repeat. It's too bad.

Because I feel like it was an above average episode. You'll just have to take our words for it.

I guess. If you want, we could do a quick recap and then we could do my original topic,

which we didn't do. Okay, sure. Okay, so the quick recap.

Very quick. We're doing it very quick, right? Yes, quick recap.

I brought up a few things from the weekend. The first thing was that Johnny Javitella is up again.

We talked about him coming up for the Royals. He is up again and I asked Sam what he would hit

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