chemistry is well technically chemistry is the study of matter but I prefer to

see it as the study of change not just just think about this good morning and

welcome to episode 272 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindberg Ben how are you doing okay okay great

what do you want to talk about my topic is something that we discussed at

some point I think we discussed on the podcast doing a selecting selecting the

top clubhouse guy from each team or the top perceived clubhouse guy from each

team so yeah I don't yeah I was trying to remember the context why we through

that out there but I just to be clear I think the point of this exercise is to

see whether whether our impressions agree whether it is something that is so

firmly established in the public that we you know that kind of like two

independent evaluators come up with the same answer yes not that we we're not

actually going to try to gonna say who is the best based on our yeah because we

don't know right yeah exactly okay so good just just so it's clear we have no

idea I would say that I was talking to somebody today who was has some kind of

he has a relationship with a GM and anyway long story short there is I think

there's a real sense within the game that the perceived clubhouse guy is very

often not the real clubhouse guy because it's so driven by the media that the

media thinks that good clubhouse guy equals accessible and that in a lot of

cases that's true and in a lot of cases that's specifically part of why the guy

is a good clubhouse guy because he takes the pressure off of his teammates

yeah Johnny Gomes last year for instance down the the stretch I was somebody

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