Well, I want to be in the cavalry if you send me up to war.

Well, I want a good steed, I'm the melee, my forefathers go slow.

I want a good mountain, one of you will stand and I hear the cannon roar.

Well, I want to be in the cavalry if you send me up to war.

Good morning and welcome to episode 334 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspectives.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller.

We do have actual news to discuss today.

We are going to get into the Kinsler Fielder trade.

We also had an interview scheduled with Drew Samuelson

from baseball South Australia.

He's also an international scout for the race to talk about the team

that won the Asia series earlier today.

And you may not know any of what that means.

I didn't a day ago, but Drew will explain it.

So first we will talk about the trade and then we will bring you that interview.

You are writing right now about this trade and we're taking a break

so that we can talk about this trade.

And this came together very, very quickly.

This is one of those times when you hear that a team is discussing

something almost at the same time that you hear that those discussions

led to a trade.

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