So the tried drops its third straight on this trip six to one to the Rangers for the Indians one run on let's say one hit

That's all we got one god damn hit

Don't worry nobody's listening anyway. Good morning and welcome to episode 395 of effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

Perspectus

Presented by the play index from baseball reference.com

We're joined today by Susan Patrone who writes about the Indians for

It's pronounced Lajaway which is on the ESPN sweet spot network and in about 20 minutes Nick will be talking to Jordan Bastion from

MLB.com

Ben Lindbergh's also here Susan. How are you?

I am great. Thank you very much. We have a man

So

There's one of Bill James sort of more famous ideas is the Plexiglass principle which says that if a team

Improves by a whole lot in one year

They generally

Regress some the next year that that there's usually a kind of I don't know if hangover effect is the right way to describe it

But they they don't generally keep going upward

So from that perspective should the Indians be feeling kind of pessimistic right now?

I don't think pessimistic

We have very high expectations. I

Don't know that they'll go to 92 wins again, and it's our talking as a as a long-time fan who's been disappointed so many times

that

We always have very guarded optimism

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