And that was the worst base running in the history of the game.

Good morning and welcome to episode 409 of Effectively Wild with the Daily Podcast from

baseball prospectus, presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh and in about 20 minutes Nick will be talking to Dave

Fleming, the wonderful play by play man for the San Francisco Giants.

But we have Grant Brisbane who writes for a blog called Waiting for Boof, is that right?

So when I get fired I'll pick it back up.

Yeah, I have not read you in many years, that's the last I heard of you.

That's going to be good, they're going to be good, you watch.

So Grant is of course the proprietor of McCubby Chronicles, he's what are you like the national

baseball writer for SB Nation or something like that?

That'll do.

All right, and he wrote a wonderful essay in the annual this year about unwritten rules.

Anyways, you know, our favorite writer in the world, there's really nothing to say about

him and work that he's here.

So Grant, it feels like it's been upwards of a year since the Giants were world champions.

Is it too soon to start making fun of Brian Sabian again?

I would give him another two months into this season to start really late in on thick.

I would wait until Ryan Mobile song totally disintegrates and Mike Moore swells his glove

and just wait until his key off season acquisitions or re-acquisitions really fail him because they're

kind of curious, but I'll give him a couple months, I'll wait and see if it's just crazy

enough to work.

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