This is episode 311 right? It is. So will you have like a 311 song be the intro?

Probably actually yeah. Okay. Okay, full disaster.

We could just have you singing a 311 song. That's the intro. Good morning and welcome to episode 311

of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus. I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by

Sam Miller and today we are joined again by Baseball Prospectus' Russell Carlton, who has

joined us before and who has served as a sabermetric consultant to the show on many occasions.

We are recording this on Saturday night for scheduling reasons. It is about to be the top of the

ninth in Boston so we will probably say something about that or note something as it happens. But

we have had Russell on here to talk about some of the things that he has written recently and

kind of do a playoff, Mythbusters sort of episode because that's the sort of article that he's

been writing lately and we'll probably do a World Series preview of sorts on Tuesday or Wednesday.

For now, Russell, who has the momentum heading into the World Series, would you say?

Everybody because momentum is apparently this thing that's so easy to get that if you just

single, oh he's got the momentum. Now though the Cardinals have the momentum, oh no,

now the Dodgers have it's wonderful how I mean it feels like when you're a kid and you take a

glove to the stadium and you hope to catch a foul ball. If you catch a foul ball, you might have

the momentum. It's that easy to get. Well the Victorino Grand Slam was a direct result of the

Ortiz Grand Slam. They were separated by a few games but it was a carry-over effect one would

assume. And so the Victorino Grand Slam then will produce its own carry-over effect into game one

of the World Series. Ben, Ben, that's about like saying every time I come on the show, my wife

has a baby. There is a correlation there. So that means in a couple days, oh boy.

I hope she knows that. Well, okay, well let's start with your momentum article, I guess,

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