I'm still grumpy, so there will be no silly questions.

Good morning and welcome to episode 313 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcasts from Baseball

Perspectice.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh, it is the day that the World Series is going to start

when you're listening to this.

It is the day when absolutely nothing is happening the day that we're talking about this.

So congratulations, you live in a better world than I do.

So we're going to do some emails, we're also going to do a little bit of conversation

because we didn't get to talk about something.

I wanted to talk about, because we had Zachary on yesterday, nothing against Zachary.

But Ben, I wanted to ask you something about the Dodgers and the Tigers, since they are

now eliminated.

I wanted to do a quick kind of exit interview sort of thing on what the public or popular

narrative is about them as they fail out and how you think that might affect their

off-season.

So what is your perception of how people view those two clubs given their post-season?

I think they were viewed as very strong teams that suffered from injuries at the wrong

time.

In part, a lot of people said that the turning point of the Dodger series was handly getting

hit by that pitch, which may be, but it seems like sort of a stretch, I mean, it's an

impact.

Certainly, he's probably the best player on the team and he was either unavailable or diminished

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