You never were a stitch of lace, Your powders hammer on your face, Your ways were in jeans,

They sat down Sunday, So please don't ever change,

Now don't you ever change, I kind of like you just.

Good morning and welcome to episode 490 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus, presented by the BaseballRefrents.com Play Index.

I am Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by Sam Miller.

Hello. Hello. Anything you'd like to discuss?

Nope. Anything you'd like to discuss?

Well, we have some announcements to make that relate to our livelihoods.

We both have or are about to have new jobs. This is my last day as an editor and as a writer

at Baseball Prospectus. It's been two years since I signed up for a two-year stint,

which means that that stint is over and I am stepping down to take a job as a staff writer at

Grantland and what that means is that you also have a new job. Your job is editor-in-chief

of Baseball Prospectus. Yes, I have your job. Congratulations.

Thank you. Congratulations to you, Ben. Thank you. It's a big deal. It's a big thing.

For both of us. Yeah, it's bittersweet, very bittersweet. Yes. A lot of bitter. A lot of bitter in

this sweetness. Yes, definitely. But, you know, such as the case. Everybody leaves.

Everybody leaves eventually. That is the case. Yes. I'm taking a break from writing my

farewell post, which will be up at Baseball Prospectus today. So I will try to put my feelings

in there. But BP has been a big part of my life and it's hard to leave and I've loved most

minutes of it. By the way, Ben, nobody cares right now about what you're saying about you and

what you're saying about me. That's true. That's what I know. It's going to be episode 491.

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