Good morning, good evening. Welcome to Episode 43 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast

from Baseball Perspectice. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California, along with Ben

Lindbergh in New York, New York. We are recording this late Sunday night after an eventful

weekend. Ben, I sort of met Finn Scully this weekend. What did you do that was so

friggin special? I played tennis with BPM Jeremy Greenhouse. I watched Crazy Heart.

Okay. Crazy Heart is the Jeff Bridges one. There's another one that there's a movie

that Robert DeVole made like 25 years earlier that's very similar that if you liked Crazy

Heart I would really recommend it's in the similar vein but I liked it quite a bit more.

Are you going to tell me the name of it? I am. I'm looking it up right now. Okay. Do you have

something you'd like to talk about Baseball? Oh and Robert DeVole is in Crazy Heart. Yes.

Baseball Lee? Do you have a Baseball Lee topic? I do and it's going to make one of our

fans slash commenters very angry I think. Okay. It is about the Cubs. It is about Anthony Rizzo

specifically and we had a comment from a commenter named Guido 565 that is G-W-E-E-D-O-H

and he yes or she tabulated all of our topics from the first 42 episodes of Effectively

Wild which was very flattering. It reminded me of when Craig Robinson kept track of what Jason

and Kevin drank on up and in. It was the same sort of obsessiveness and his finding was that

we had talked about the Cubs three times already but we hadn't collected the Reds since our very

first episode when we talked about a oldest Chapman and he was a Reds fan and he was not happy

so we're going to talk about the Cubs for the fourth time now and continue to neglect the Reds.

Well my topic is the Reds. Oh excellent. Now did you cave to the pressure? Yeah not totally.

I will do anything anybody. If you think I'm doing something wrong and you tell me I will fix it

and it really doesn't matter how insane you are I will fix it. I will. I have no spine.

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