Good morning and welcome to episode 494 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus presented by the Baseball Reference.com play at Dix. I am Ben Lindbergh, soon to be a

staff writer for Grantland.com. I am joined today by Zachary Levine of Baseball Prospectus, who joined us

recently in Russell Carlton, ran the numbers and where did you rank among frequent effectively wild

guests or guest co-hosts? I think I was tied for first if you don't count the 30 preview segments

that were done each of the last couple of years. If I don't have a 30 and a 30 ahead of me,

I think Paul Spore and we're tied for first. So we're making history here. So Sam and I, as mentioned,

I am traveling. Sam and I could not coordinate times, mostly my fault, and mostly the fault of

Canadian internet. I am in the British Columbian wilderness right now, and Zachary is in Las Vegas,

and we are talking today to Evan Drelick, who is in Minnesota, who is covering the All-Star

game and is still hanging around. Hey Evan. Hey guys, there's a lot of pressure for me with Zachary

there. I'll be on the same podcast with my predecessor. You're putting a lot of pressure on me

here, but I think I can handle it. I know it's like Star Trek Generations, except with Houston

Chronicle Astros beatwriters. We've got the former one and the current one. Yeah. Why don't you tell

the world where you are right now? I am standing outside of a place called Worley Ball,

WHOIRLY. It's apparently, I've never participated. I'm about to. It's apparently a bumper car

esque. Some sort of lacrosse kind of involvement, like a cross between bumper cars and lacrosse. So

you're in a bumper car and you've got a pole and you try to scoop up a sum, it's a ball or a round

object and you try to get it in the goal. But I haven't done it yet. So there's great excitement

to follow for me after after we're done here. Yeah, that sounds much more entertaining. And if we

like it, we like it, we're adding it to All-Star. We're next, yeah. Yeah, that could be the

biggest competition. We're part of the skills competition. So we have called Evan here today

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