Good morning and welcome to effectively wild the baseball

prospectus daily podcast with Ben Lindbergh and me Sam Miller.

We're certainly glad you're listening and we thank you for making us the

number one sports podcast on iTunes I believe.

Yeah it was a quick rise to the top.

Yes it's almost unrealistically quick. Ben how are you doing tonight?

Doing very well thank you. Good I am as well thank you for

didn't ask but I was wondering.

Yeah thank you for leaving this space for me to say it.

Do you have we're going to switch our format as I understand it so we're now

going to talk about twice as many items

each each show and you'll you'll tell us what to talk about and then I'll tell

you what to talk about is that correct? That is correct by popular

request we are we are each talking about a topic rather than

each proposing something brilliant and then depriving the listeners of one

of those things. So my topic for tonight is the Miami Marlins.

Interesting I've never heard of that team.

No I have heard of that team and I know a little bit about them so why don't

you tell me what's interesting about them at the moment?

Well shall we shall I ask you what your topic is first so we just tease it

so that yes right so my topic is going to be Francisco Lyriano.

Okay all right so if we start off with the Marlins so

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