I play I play I play for the National League for the American League. I play it a win to win. We will win. We will win.

Good morning and welcome to episode 238 of

Effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball perspectives. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh

I hope everybody had a very nice long weekend and Ben

Are you glad to be back? Very glad it's been too long

All right

So we're gonna do

Something a little different today, and then we're also gonna have a topic my topic is

tobacco

chewing tobacco and

Ben's topic requires some explanation. So Ben. Why don't you just go ahead and explain?

Okay, my topic is inspired by a listener email that we wanted to do a little more in-depth than we could on a listener email show

So this question comes from Burke

He says dear Ben and Sam with all-star game voting ending this week

I figured I'd impart a strategy to you and your listeners that I've found to be more entertaining than useful

Much like this podcast for years

I have thoroughly enjoyed voting for the worst players on the ballot in the American League

Perhaps this is my loyal allegiance to the St. Louis Cardinals coming through but as long as the all-star game

Determines home field advantage in the World Series. I want the National League to win at the very least

I don't want to cast my vote for the best American League players. This could be a form of silent protest against the current

All-star game format as I feel a World Series home field advantage should be based on regular season record and not in exhibition

This actually seems like a sub-optimal strategy to me. It does. It's horrible

...