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

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York, where it is about to be very

hot. I am Ben Lindbergh in his Honda Fit in Long Beach where someone recently

asked me if you were living out of your car is Sam Miller. Somebody asked you

from my Honda Fit if I was living. That would just be weird. But they were

concerned about you spending all this time in your car. So a lot of things

happen yesterday. Presumably we we want to talk about some of those things. What

is your topic today? I would like to talk about Ituro Suzuki. Okay well that

works out well since I want to talk about that Tiger Strait and was sort of

going to start by bringing up Ituro. I guess you can start then. Okay well so

Ituro. I don't know. Ituro the Ituro trade has taken up a lot more of my

interest than I would expect from a trade that has very little baseball

impact. I can't remember a trade a very long time maybe ever that meant so

little on the field and yet seems so fascinating and surprising and

interesting and everybody is interested in it. I don't really think that he's

going to help the Yankees. I don't think that's probably a very controversial

opinion. He's probably a good fourth outfielder right now and not much more. But

it's just it's sort of shocking. I mean it it it undid this this conventional

wisdom that has existed for years and years probably going back to 2007 or 2008

that there was no way that the Mariners would ever trade Ituro and that it wasn't

really worth talking about it. I mean it was such conventional wisdom and it

has now been so undone but I wonder whether we should start talking about whether

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