Good morning and welcome to episode 363 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseballperspectus.com. I am Ben Lindbergh joined by Sam Miller and today we are welcoming

back Andy McCullough who covers the Yankees for the Newark Star Ledger and we last had

you on in late July to talk about the absurdity that was Alex Rodriguez at the time and we are

welcoming you back today to discuss the same topic. It has been a while but the topic has grown

no less absurd. It maybe has grown more absurd since then. I don't remember exactly what was

what point in the saga that was but there were some new developments on Sunday night just as you

had probably recovered from the Scott Seismor news. You had to re-center yourself and report on the

60 minute interview, 60 minutes interview with Tony Bosh and Bud Sealig and Rob Manfred and A-Rads

Attorney Joe Takapina and there were several statements released before and after that program.

So we wanted to bring you on to get your thoughts on the show since you were entertainingly tweeting

about it. Yeah that's pretty much all I do really my only value. So I guess do you have any big

takeaways from this as far as I guess what the motivations of Sealig or I guess all of the various

parties who were on the show was there an agenda that each of them was sort of pushing to your

to your eyes? Well yeah I mean it probably pretty clear baseball you know kind of wanted a touch

sounds bike and you know I think to you know to make a horrible metaphor I think it's pretty clear

they've been flagged for excessive celebration I think like this is that was pretty good I

like on the fly literally I write for a little anyway so but you know like as you're watching this

the only thing I could think of was like why did baseball want to do this I mean like because you

know Tony Bosh who's the guy who they're basically saying you know this is the guy who you need to

believe you know this is the guy who's telling the truth you know this guy is you know he's the

reason why we're able to bring down A-Rads he gave us the evidence that and he's the guy who's

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