Good morning and welcome to episode 51. That's wrong. I'm going to start over.

Good morning and welcome to episode 52 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Baseball

Perspectives podcast. Thank you. It's great to be here.

In New York, New York, where I am approximately 12 hours away from the opening,

the grand opening of a 7-11, one block away, which I cannot be more excited about.

I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California, you are say Miller, do you have a 7-11 anywhere near you?

Yes, I do. Okay. How near you? I would say it's about a mile and a quarter. I have not actually,

I've not been to it, but I've been to other 7-11s. So you would drive if you were to make a late-night

7-11 run? I would probably advise to go. I don't, I try not to drive anywhere within like two miles.

Well, I try to drive everywhere beyond two miles. I'm not strong, but well, I'm very excited

because I've been living for the past year or so. A three avenue trek away from the closest 7-11

and as someone who keeps odd hours, I appreciate all 24 hour diners and convenience stores and

really anything that's open when I am awake. So, yeah, so that was kind of my topic 7-11, but my

other topic is strikeouts. And I'll be talking about the Oakland Day's rotation.

Strikeouts. Strikeouts. Strikeouts. Okay. Somebody told me that you were going to be talking about

something else. Was it Arjay? I had a, I had a tipster. Was it Arjay? It was. Yeah. He suggested a

topic and I didn't take it. Okay. Do you want to start? Well, I was already to talk about your other

one, but sorry. That's okay. I'll start. I, I am going to steal actually another person,

another person's writing, Rob Nyer wrote on Wednesday about the fascinating fact that the Oakland

days currently have five rookie starters in their starting rotation. They are likely to go into

the postseason with five rookie starters in their starting rotation. And the question that I have,

if I, if all I knew about this team was that they are playoff bound and they have five rookie

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