Good morning and welcome to episode 48 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York. I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,

California. He is Sam Miller. It is our first show of the fall and those crickets

you're here not long for this world. So this is casting kind of a morbid

fall over this whole episode. Is that what happens? They just die. I assume they migrate it.

I mean, I suppose they die. Crickets don't hibernate. I don't think. Do they migrate?

I'm sure they migrate. I just don't. I mean, you're probably correct that these specific crickets

are not long for this world because you think they would have started migrating already.

I wouldn't think that. Oh, Ben, you don't realize how hot it is. Every single day it is.

So let's talk about the weather and then we'll talk about my fantasy team and then we'll

call it a night. Yeah. And the migratory habits of crickets. Crickets live for about a month

from egg to death. Oh, wow. So the crickets were gearing on episode three. We have actually,

this is a new generation. A couple generations of crickets. The crickets have passed on the story

of a rice harbour first being hot and then slightly like a oral history through their species.

Oh, the circle of life in St. Miller's garage. Okay. So what do you want to talk about other

than crickets? The Dodgers. And I want to talk about a former Dodger James Loney.

Oh, okay. Why don't you go first? Okay. So this is more of an offseason topic than a timely

pen and erase topic. But I'm interested in what is going to happen to James Loney this offseason.

Every year there are some interesting free agent cases who play at a position where maybe there

isn't a whole lot of talent available that winter, which seems to be the case at first base

this this offseason. And so the rumors or the news has already started about James Loney and what

will happen to him. So I read something yesterday by Nick Caffado of the Boston Globe who said that

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