Good morning and welcome to episode 33 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Baseball

Perspectives podcast. Coming from you are coming to you from a shower in a

bathroom in Vancouver Canada. I am Ben Lindbergh, coming to you from his Honda

Fit with the door open tonight or today is Sam Miller and Long Beach

California. If you're wondering why one of us is always in a car or a bathroom

or both of us are in strange places, it's because we are considered people and

we don't let the podcast interfere with the other people in our lives. That's true.

So I'm sitting in a shower. Who are you who are you not disturbing right now? I'm

trying not to wake up my girlfriend. And you're in Canada again. I'm in Canada again.

You have a girlfriend in Canada? Yes. I do. Actually this is the first time I

can ever legitimately say that. Uh-huh. That's exciting. Okay. I'm gonna say it

many, many times over the next five days or so. What is your top? My topic would

be the San Diego Padres sort of. Okay. And I want to talk about Jimmy Rowlands's

hustle. Hmm. Hustle. I like talking about hustle. I know. That's one of the reasons I pick this.

Well, I don't actually want to talk about the Padres. I do, but I think I'll

probably will put that off until next week. What I really want to talk about is the

sort of baseball's underclass. The Padres have won. Is it 9 out of 10 and are

playing well and they're an interesting team and they have a smart front

office and the 9 out of 10 have come against all over 500 teams, I believe. And so

there's a lot to like about the Padres. But my question is actually a lot broader.

It is this. If you had to, if your life depended on picking one team that would not win a

World Series in the next 10 years, I think that the Padres would be one team that

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