Good morning and welcome to episode 38 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York, where it is going down to 55

degrees as we record. And I'm considering opening a window myself, although

that would only let in traffic sounds, no crickets. In Long Beach, California, it

sounds like with the door closed tonight. You know, the door is open, but a lot of

the crickets have vacated the garage. And so I can hear them, but I'm not

surprised that you can't hear them. And to all the cricket supporters, I should

warn you that crickets are seasonal in these parts. And we will not have them

forever. But next summer is not too far away. I didn't realize they were actually in the

garage. They were actually they were they were under some shingles, some old

roofing shingles that I had not used when I ruffed my house a couple of years ago.

And I moved the shingles and they scattered. Like how you say, roofed as opposed to...

I don't know. I've never said never said that word. Because I've never had to do

anything with a roof as an apartment dweller. But I say roof. I guess I

probably would have said roofed. I guess that would be wrong. How is your weekend?

You know, it was another interminable weekend of waiting for another podcast episode.

It was as good as it was. And yet, and yet four minutes ago, you were still

searching for a topic. Six minutes ago. Your name is Sam Miller, by the way. I

never said that. What is your topic? Yadier Molina. Okay, and my topic is Omar Viscale.

Oh, okay. So, first, do we want to get a ruling Yadier or Yadier? I would say Yadier.

Yeah, me too. So, of course, as you know, he's having a heck of a season by, well,

he's having a heck of a season. I think I did a quick sort of query to see which

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