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Good morning and welcome to episode 305 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and Ben, you'll never guess what I saw today.

You saw Wildcat in a tree. I saw three bears. I've never seen a bear in my entire life.

Like I've known that there were bears in the area, but I've never once seen a bear.

And today I ran into three bears while I was hiking. I've seen bears, so did they just leave you alone? You just went your separate ways?

They didn't see me. I saw them and immediately grabbed my family, sprinted into a cabin. We were very nearer the cabin. They were like right at the base of the trail.

And we ran into the cabin, freaked out thinking that they were probably going to come inside the house and kill us.

And then we watched them as they hung around for about 15 minutes, like 50 feet away from us. And it was pretty amazing.

They were black bears. It was a mom and two cubs. They were big. And then I went on the internet and found out that there's not much danger from black bears.

Well, I saw Jeff at Amador today, which is not much different from seeing a bear.

How big was he?

He's 6'4", and he's listed at least on the roster that I had as 2'15", which is I think probably the most misleading figure I've ever seen on a roster.

And I've seen some pretty misleading ones, but Amador being 2'15 is, gosh, I want to say it's got to be at least 60 pounds light, and maybe more.

He is enormous. He is.

I don't know why they, why do they list? I mean, if it's not going to be, if it's not going to be reliable, why do they do it?

Like, who's clamoring for that in the general population?

I think they're like, why is it that I can look up Mickey Lola's height and weight?

How is that? I mean, if it's reliable, then that's useful, but Mickey Lola just listed on baseball reference at 6'170".

And Mickey Lola just, you know, pretty widely reputed to be the, you know, the status of his generation.

And it's just, it's not like I would have ever thought to go look up Mickey Lola's height and weight, except that, you know, I know it's going to be there, so I see it.

But it does me no good if it's not reliable, and it really does me no good if it is reliable. So why do we might?

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