So, Stephen A, I'm finding it hard to appreciate this as punishment fitting the crime.

Well, I think that you're wrong. You're finding it hard to appreciate. I'm sorry,

I'm finding it impossible. Good morning and welcome to episode 251 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller.

We are going to talk about baseball. What's your topic?

Uh, gosh. I don't know how to distill it. So, I guess I'm going to talk about baseball.

Okay, me too. I think I'm going to talk about, I guess, together we're going to talk about

picking, picking a narrative for the nationals.

Short term or long term? For this, for this season.

Okay, sure. Well, gosh. Let's go with mine first.

Okay. All right. So, I'm stealing my topic from a reader named Andrew, who and well,

so he asked us what moment or game in baseball history that, if it occurred today in 2013,

would set the world a flutter more than any other, i.e. blow up the twitterverse, uh,

cause ESPN's debauchos to freak out, etc., debating it. Um, and I wanted to answer this because

right now we're in the middle of two freak outs. Um, we're in the middle of the Ryan Braun

slash biogenesis freak out. Um, and we're in the middle of the a rod Yankees freak out.

And these are both huge freak outs. I would say related, big related freak outs.

We don't know that for sure yet. I mean, it's, we don't know how much of the Yankees a rod thing

is biogenesis related, right? I mean, it could emerge that he's like negotiating a suspension

or something and that the Yankees are stalling or whatever. Um, but we don't know that.

It is nothing that, you know, gives us any real evidence of that. I mean, it's, they could

be completely independent is what I'm saying, right? Yeah, it's getting weirder and weirder.

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