Until I see you around, until it'll be because leave it there.

Leave it to us, we are the challenges of the unknown.

Good morning and welcome to episode 373 of Effectively Wild of the Daily Podcasts from Baseball Prospectus.

I'm Sam Miller and Benlyn Burg is also here and also also here is our good friend Dan Brooks.

You know Dan Brooks as the developer of BrooksBaseball.net.

If not the best site for baseball information on the internet, certainly the second best site.

And out of respect for my company, I won't even name the, I'll just let you guess who I mean for the first one.

But Dan also wrote a wonderful essay in the BP Annual this year, which we're not here to talk about, but I'm noting it.

It's wonderful and I really enjoyed it.

And we're here because he brought a topic that's mainly why we're here.

So Dan, how are you?

I'm pretty good man, how are you?

Good.

Okay.

And basically I realize that I am on this podcast for one reason and one reason only, which is to provide you all with the topic.

Yes.

Because you are now sick of taking them.

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, you know, you actually, you, you inspire a lot of the things we talk about, sort of behind the scenes because you are often asking us provocative questions and forcing us to think them through.

And so I've, I've, I actually figured that you might just give me a topic.

You might just tell me one if I asked you.

And then I thought, no, we can go further.

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