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Good morning and welcome to episode 266 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh joined by Sam Miller. Good morning Sam.

Hi Ben. Do we have any banter before we begin?

I have a little bit of banter but I was going to wrap it into my topic because I'm not sure

that my topic is going to take more than two minutes to cover. You neither.

Okay so do you want to just start your topic and or what is your topic?

It's the Oakland days. Okay and mine I guess I feel like talking about instant replay but

feels like there's no point in talking about that now when we're probably going to find out more

about what the proposal is later today so maybe we can talk about that tomorrow. So my my topic is

how about those Dodgers? Okay so how about them though? Really. They want to

crazy. They want to game yesterday. It's unusual. Yeah so start with your banter and go into your

topic. Yeah all right so yesterday the the A's they lost in an extra innings game to Houston and

Chris Young nearly had a walkoff. Nice to run. And Robbie Grossman I believe it was

caught the ball jumped up and caught the ball and it was it reminded me of the situation we

talked about not long ago where he caught it and you couldn't you thought he caught it you were

pretty sure he caught it but he just sort of jogged into the into the infield and so the whole time

I'm watching him and thinking you know is someone going to ask him and sure enough Chris

Chris Young stood there at second base waiting for him and when he passed Chris Young Chris Young said

show me that ball and and he showed him that ball and the umpire also asked him to show him

that ball and he did he did he took the ball out of his glove to show the umpire that ball and

so it's I don't know that Grossman was on the road and so it's almost impossible to imagine he

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