and the Yankees win at 5-4 on the day the derogatory to collect his 5,000 hit.

Good morning and welcome to episode 321 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. How are you Ben?

Okay, we actually, we're here. All of you we thought we were just bluffing about continuing to do

the show. Kind of reminded me of that Seinfeld episode where George drives out to the

Hamptons pretending that he has a house out there because he doesn't want to get caught in the

lie, but but the other people call his bluff so he just keeps driving out there until he's

forced to admit it. So here we are. We're doing it. Do you do you think that living in Manhattan

you have a particular appreciation for Seinfeld or is it the case that when every other show

on TV takes place in New York you just become totally immune to it to the effect?

I don't know. I think it's probably universally appealing. There may be some things that are

more familiar to me and I enjoy the the humor a little bit more, but I'm sure I'd like it if I

were from somewhere else. I spent a month living in New York once in the West Village and every day

I would walk past the balcony that was used as the balcony in friends like Rachel and Monica's

balcony and every single time every time I would look up like kind of excited and I I didn't

wonder like if I had moved there permanently as I had considered like how long it would take

before I stopped looking up excitedly. You didn't really watch friends. Okay so today we're going

to talk about the it's my it's my it's my turn to pick a topic. We're only doing one so here we

go this is it new new format. Today we're going to talk about the Yankees offseason and two sort of

I'm kind of about two topics even though we're only doing one topic because they're both quick I guess

and they're both related. So one is that the Yankees re-signed Derek Jeter did basically it's

it seems to be an accounting trick to maybe save a little bit of money. It's hard to tell

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