Playoffs, don't talk about playoffs, you kidding me?

Good morning and welcome to episode 293 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

prospectus.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller.

Hello.

Goodness gracious, Ben.

You sound sadder than usual.

Yeah.

Obviously everybody, go back, rewind, relisten to that intro and see if you don't notice

that Ben sounds really just crushed by the news of Mani Machado and CCC's about the

season's ending.

I was actually just thinking about my reaction to Machado as opposed to my reaction to

to Harvey and how it is for Mani Machado.

Yes, that is what we're talking about.

It's not quite the same level of depression, I feel like, just because the season is

essentially over and you'd like to think that it's the sort of thing that won't continue

into next season, although it could be.

I thought that Roy Halliday's start was more like the Matt Harvey experience for me.

Roy Halliday's start today was like profoundly sad, I thought.

Yeah, but that's kind of been going on all year.

It has been, yeah.

Yeah, which maybe makes me even more sad.

...