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Good morning, and welcome to episode 44 of effectively wild the baseball prospectus daily podcast in New York, New York

I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California where the crickets are in fine voice tonight

Is Sam Miller Sam how are you?

Hello, good great. Excellent. I'm feeling better. Just peering your response to that question

What do you have to talk about?

The San Francisco Giants starting rotation. Okay, and I have kind of a nebulous two-part topic about

rooting for

Teams that maybe shouldn't be winning and also

How getting to know people on a team can influence how you feel about that team?

Should we address Bill Johnson's complaint about last night's show?

Sure

So Bill Johnson listener Bill Johnson wrote in to say of last night's show

I am by no means a reds fan, but the first half of this thing was pretty lame second best record in baseball 11 game lead in their division players

Overperforming everywhere on the roster huge mismatch between

Pythagorean record and the real thing and you spend half your time talking about what a flake Bronson Aroyo is

and so I

Don't disagree it was pretty lame. It was a lame segment and when we

When I walked away from the Honda Fit, I thought well that was lame

But it's interesting because we said as much to each other when we started. We did

Yes, we did

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