I'm the answer, I'm the question, I always thought that you did too.

You were about to go, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was

you were about to go, it was, go then go, go live for this, I don't live with this, I try to get

you to do it all the time. Good morning and welcome to episode, oh see I should have done it, I was

prepared. 362 of effectively wild, the daily podcast from baseballperspectice.com, I'm Sam Miller

with Ben Lindbergh and it's email Friday, Ben how are you? Okay, good, excellent. Are you looking

forward to the weekend, Ben? Sure. All right, so the first question is before we start, I wanted to

to clarify something that I meant to say yesterday but then we had Jay on, when we were talking

about the the velocity readings for guys like Maddox and Glavin, when we were talking about the

early scouting reports for the Hall of Fame candidates, I should have mentioned as I did in the

article I wrote after that that we sort of need to convert those those velocity readings because

the it's on a it's sort of on a different scale. I'm I'm quoting from the the preface to dollar sign

on the muscle where Kevin Crane says in 1981 when I was watching games with baseball scouts most

of the men using radar relied on a brand called the ray gun which registered the speed of the ball

as a cross-tome plate and thus an 86 fastball was set to be the major league average. Today almost

all scouts use some variant of the jugs gun which is not quite true, I don't think but which

registers the speed of the ball as soon as it leaves the pitchers hand and the difference is an

added four to five miles per hour. So so Maddox is 88 that we quoted in in this the velocity scale

that we use now would be closer to to 92 to three so that supports the idea that he he had

significantly better than average stuff as a young starter. Okay, it validates an awful lot of that

episode. Yeah, a bit. Also not only that but I believe that atmospheric changes in the

earth have actually changed how much Frank Thomas weighs. That's that's possible. Not a small

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