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Good Tuesday morning and welcome to episode 25 of Effectively Wild, the daily

baseball prospectus podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh in

Long Beach in his Honda Fit with the door open tonight because of the heat

which is letting the cricket sound in that you're being treated to. It's

similar and I was I was asked today if we are sponsored by Honda. We are not

although maybe it's something we should look into. I got to say Ben these

crickets are no treat if you live here. They're better than the ants. I actually

may have gotten rid of the ants. How did you? Well, unrelatedly I had a shower

project that I had to do and I took apart the shower faucet and I found a nest.

Now my understanding is that Argentine ants have multiple nests around the

house and hundreds of queens but I sprayed a full can of raid into that wall

killed just about a billion ants and a bunch of queens and I'm not super

confident but we haven't had an ant since. We both were responsible for some

insect genocide then this weekend it sounds like because I wasn't just lying

by the pool leisurely I was also taking down two wasps nests. One of which was

hanging by the front door and another of which was on the grill which was a nice

surprise when we opened it up to make some salmon so I sprayed them from a

far and ran. Awesome. Yeah I want to talk about it but I don't know

than anybody else does. Yeah we can talk about it off air. So what's your

non-insect related topic for tonight? A Starland Castro. Okay and although we

just talked about the White Sucks on Friday and I feel sort of silly talking about

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