I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it.

Good morning and welcome to episode 340 of Effectively Wild with the Daily Podcast from baseball

Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh. Ben, what do you have to wake up early in the morning for?

I have to go on TV to talk about transactions.

Did you do that yesterday, too? Today? I did. Wow. It's a lot of TV.

It is. It disrupts my usual schedule of staying up all night, which is a problem for writing.

All right. So, I'll probably ask you about the Doug Fistertrade, don't you think?

They probably will. Well, let's consider this a dry run.

So, this is the most probably universal response to a move since the James Shieldstrade.

I would think it's not quite as universal as the James Shieldstrade.

I think we're at a point now where the neager contrarianism of which I think probably you and I find ourselves in sometimes will prevent anything from ever being as universal as the James Shields deal.

It's sort of like how like Willie Mays didn't get elected into the Hall of Fame unanimously.

And so now there's like a handful of guys who will refuse to vote anyone in because if Willie Mays couldn't be voted in unanimously, then they certainly can't be.

We're that we're the we're the jerks who will take the wrong side on things.

Just just because but I feel confident saying this is a pretty odd trade.

I guess it's it's not the trade I was expecting to hear.

No, it's not the return I would have expected for Fister.

I wouldn't have expected Fister to be moved unless it was for something really good.

And you have to wonder how this fell into the nationals laps.

Is there another way of looking at this besides that?

I don't know I'm I'm trying I haven't written about it yet.

I have to read about it after we finish recording and I I'd like to come up with a take that is not the same as everyone else's take, but I'm struggling.

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