Okay, you're an animal. Yes, there we go. You're a toy. You're tuning the target. You're great.

Good morning and welcome to episode 264 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and joining us from a terminal in LAX

is Zachary Levine. Zachary, how are you? I am good. I am about an hour and a half away from takeoff

and I apologize for any pages or this incessant background music. It's part of the territory here.

Sam usually likes to go hour 45, hour 50 on these things, but we'll see if we can keep it short

enough for you to make your flight. Thank you. How was your wedding? Wonderful. I think we have to

clarify that it was not my wedding. It was a wedding. I was attending, but it was very nice.

Great. All right, and you've brought a topic today, right? Yes. I wanted to throw out there

four questions for you guys all about Miguel Cabrera since he seems to be a pretty big topic these

days and it is four questions predicting the future. A question about one month out, 10 years out,

15 years out, and 50 years out about Miguel Cabrera. Ask me 100 years out and I've got it.

Okay. Ben, do you have a topic? Yeah, I'm actually also talking about the Tigers as it happens

in their World Series ads. And I guess mine is maybe just if I'm, I don't know, I don't know if

I'm going to get to mine and I'm not sure I'm comfortable saying it, so we'll get to mine if

we get to mine, okay? I'd like to have time for the gambling show by the way. Yeah, I was going to

say you will, I'm sure you'll have something to add to this. And by the way, this appearance

is really a victory lap for you after the hidden ball trick was pulled off this past weekend.

By the team that you predicted and that we cited your prediction last week, I think,

that it would be the race and it was. So good. Thank you. When I was watching live,

I was watching that game on on Fox and if I don't know if you were watching the announcers were

just baffled as to what happened. They thought they got left there called out for leaving early.

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