Good morning, and welcome to episode 387 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Perspectives brought to you by the Baseball Reference Play Index.

We have a sponsor, Sam.

That's exciting.

It's somewhat exciting that we have a sponsor, but it is very exciting that we have a sponsor

that we love so much.

Exactly.

Like that we are associated with them in any way is exciting.

Yes.

For a long time, I have thought that maybe we should just start reading.

I also have thought that.

Yeah, we should just start writing our own promos for like audible or stamps.com and just

writing them without actually being sponsored, because when people listen to podcasts that

are good, they expect to hear those things.

And we have never had those things, so I thought it would maybe add an error of legitimacy

to what we do.

I did not want to do it for audible and go to meetings.

I wanted to do that idea except with just things that we like and just lie and imply

that they're paying us.

Well, I'm glad that we don't have to make up promos as this is an actual arrangement

that we have.

And for those of you expecting a White Sox preview with Ken Funk and Dan Hayes, don't

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