Good morning and welcome to effectively wild the daily baseball

prospectus podcast back in Long Beach California and back with all of you

after a one-day layoff I am Sam Miller in New York New York my co-host is Ben

Lindbergh Ben Lindbergh I hope you won't forget to send a thank you note to Jason

Mojakowski for filling in so admirably on short notice no I will not I was

very appreciative yeah I was too and I think that's pretty much just about

enough talk about Jason let's know well now or even we both missed one show

so I feel a little better about that that you do not have a perfect attendance

record anymore yeah no just think how great we both feel if we both miss

and imagine how great the listeners would feel Jason and Ian have done a great

I would I would pay I would pay to listen to Jason and Ian talking to each

other I mean that's an odd couple right there yeah you can listen to them

individually on their own podcasts but if you're a clever editor you could

actually listen to that together yes you can make a mashup what do you want to

talk about tonight well there weren't a lot of games last night and Bobby

Valentine didn't say anything so I want to talk about the Tigers defense okay

and I want to talk about Brandon Wood all right you didn't say good evening

by the way no I didn't recite are we turning over a new leaf with greetings I I know

my inconsistency annoys you okay I'll start I guess there is no particular

event that made me want to talk about the Tigers defense but I guess I am

kind of heartened by the fact that the Tigers defense is what we thought it

was because predicting baseball is usually such a fruitless exercise and

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