Good morning and welcome to episode 302 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. How are you Sam?

Good, Ben. How are you? Okay. What's the stopwatch situation out there? I have one.

Did they give it to you or did you have to buy one? I had one already. We had to

provide our own. You had to provide your niche. Did they record? There's no such thing as a free stopwatch.

Did they recommend a particular model? No, they didn't. But I think when I bought mine,

which was a while ago, because I've used it for various articles, I think I asked Kevin

and Jason if there was a particular brand to get. And I think I got the one. You got the

you got the AccuSplit, the Ax Pro. No, I don't know. Mine says Sportline. I don't know.

Maybe I didn't ask them. I don't really remember. I feel like I would have asked them.

There's one in particular that they've I've seen them recommend that they recommended that gold

senior recommended. And when I went to buy it, it said customers who bought this also bought

and it had all baseball perspectives books. Yeah, I don't know. It's a stopwatch. I mean,

how different are they? There are some differences. You want one that won't break if you drop it and

you want one. Some people here have ones where you have to like hold the button down to clear it

or reset it. And mine just has a different button that you press to reset it. But, you know,

it's a stopwatch. Goldstein said that it was pretty much the unofficial stopwatch of scouting

because of the scout proof feature. And I have not yet figured out what the scout proof feature

is. I've been using it for a couple months. And so far as I can tell, it starts and stops.

Yeah. Mine works that way. It's I have no complaints.

All right. Did you bring it up? You guys didn't bring it up?

Really. And I apologize to everyone because I wish that I could get in depth on some

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