Good morning, and welcome to episode 433 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Perspectus, presented by the BaseballReference.com Play Index.

I'm Bill Inberg, my co-host Sam Miller is still on vacation, but through the wonders

of technology you will hear him today, as he and I recorded the following episode before

he left and stashed it away for you during his absence.

Sam will be back really and truly today, just in time for the weekly listener email show,

so please send your questions to podcast at baseballperspectus.com, and he and I will answer

them this evening.

Thanks for listening.

Hi, Matt Trueblood, hi, Matt.

Matt is not here to talk about his writing, so I will briefly talk about his writing so

that you know who Matt is.

Matt is a writer who writes, who blogs at Armside Run, blog Armside Run, and he writes wonderfully

about baseball, about serious analysis, and also about sometimes effectively wild type

discussions.

If you like baseballperspectus, you'll like his writing.

He's also on Twitter at ArmUnderScore, SideUnderScore Run, and he also is one of our two or three

best, I would say, e-mailers for this show.

And he's here today because he's going to give Ben and I a test.

We first, Ben and I first thought of this idea a couple hundred episodes ago, but never

really got to it, so finally we're going to get to it, and Matt has put the test together

and he's going to administer it, and I guess he'll also judge it.

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