Long stay prune Where did you go?

Like winter snow I saw you back

Good morning and welcome to episode 492 of Effectively Wild the Daily Podcast

featuring me and Ben from Grantland and baseball perspective still working on that.

Yeah, I think you got our you got our affiliations backwards there.

I'm the one from Grantland you're the one from baseball perspective.

Yeah, I was saying that the two of us collectively represent the two of those

organizations collectively.

We will workshop some interest.

We're of course sponsored by the play index at baseball reference a site that we both love no matter who we're representing.

We both big fans of the site as well as the tool itself.

So that's our sponsor Ben how are you doing?

Okay good so I wanted to correct something I said yesterday.

When we were talking about the fella who caught a baseball thrown from the Washington monument

I insinuated that he might have died.

Was that a serious insinuation?

I took that to be humor.

It wasn't a serious insinuation although I do I thought that he had been maybe I feel

like I've heard of one of these stunts that ended in injury like it broke his hand

or something like that and maybe it did break his hand maybe it broke this guy's hand.

I don't think it did the reference that somebody sent me about this feat which was accomplished by Gabby Street in 1908.

It does not mention anything breaking at all but I thought I would just flesh that out briefly.

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