Good morning and welcome to episode 31 of Effectively Wild the Daily Baseball

Prospectus podcast in New York New York and Ben Lindbergh in Long Beach

California in his Honda Fit. It is Sam Miller with the door closed today. The

doors closed. I'm roasting. And why is the door closed? We got a complaint about

the crickets. Yes. I noticed myself last night that the crickets were particularly loud.

But I thought it was a pleasant sound as I am a city boy who doesn't get to hear crickets except

when I talk to Sam every night. Well I bow to the pressure of basically any person who tells me

to do something and it was only one complaint. If I got one person saying they missed the crickets

then tomorrow we can have a reunion. A big reunion show with the cricket. If Sam gets,

let's say at least two emails tomorrow requesting crickets then we will have the door open

on the Honda Fit tomorrow. So we can just control Sam's recording situation and in temperature

by reader request or let's request. It is really really hot. Okay then let's talk about things.

Before we begin I have an omission. Oh no. I got a tweet from Vanessa Demsky who

pointed out that she is a new subscriber to the podcast which we appreciate and she pointed out

that most frustrated Braves fans could tell you without citing Babbit that McCann hits into the

shift way too often. So apparently that is a thing that people have have advanced as a

explanation for why his average is so much lower this year. Why his Babbit is so much lower

is that he is hitting into the shift often. Fascinating. Yeah. I don't know if that can explain

the entire drop but perhaps I will have to look into it. So on to our new topics. What is yours?

Davey Johnson. Really. Is that seriously is that yours is Davey Johnson? Yeah. What are the odds?

I was actually dreading this show because I couldn't quite put you on a topic and I was afraid you

were going to either pick something I had no clue on or you were going to pick something I didn't

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