No, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Good morning, and welcome to episode 417 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus, presented by the BaseballReference.com Playindex.

I'm Benlyn Berg, joined as always by Sam Miller, and we're off script. We're free to be effectively wild again. I don't even know what we're talking about today. This is exciting and scary.

Yeah, we're tempted to go back to that old crutch that email and answer that one guy's email that we got.

Yeah, so we did get an email that just asked us to, just as is what we thought would happen this season, just generally what we'll have.

How do you see 2014 MLB season playing out? Thanks. Thanks.

Good question, but I don't think we have time to fully address that today. Follow along with us throughout the season, and we will talk about what we see from day to day.

Did you watch Baseball tonight?

Watched a little baseball. I didn't watch all of it. I deviated and might go back to it, but now I know what happens and everything.

I'm kind of against the opening night game.

Why is that?

I'm okay with the opening series abroad because it's good for Baseball to try to expand its audience. It's sort of weird to have games over a week before the actual season starts.

But it's sort of a necessary evil and you got to give the players time to adjust fine. That's okay.

I kind of like just the onslaught of Baseball and opening day without the little lead in on Sunday night.

I don't want the taste. It's like people who exchange gifts on Christmas Eve. They're all monsters.

I think that to me, the first game of the day is the best game. If you have a one game of Baseball in a day, you've had a pretty good day.

And two games is better and 15 is best. But one gets you most of the way there. And so to me, having any other day of the year that has a Baseball game is pretty good.

I will say this. I don't care about the health of the sport at all. Whether it's good for Baseball to go abroad does not matter to me one bit.

You depend on Baseball. It's your career.

It's not going anywhere. I don't really care if there's an Australian league in 45 years. How does that affect me?

I really like the... I actually do really like... And I think it's an accident that I like this. But I really like the series a week in advance. I know a lot of people hate it.

I think a lot of people hate it because it sort of seems like poorly thought out and weird and like kind of like bumbling, fumbling, budsy.

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