Sit on my ass and watch the game like everybody else.

And when it's on the line that's when they take me down from the shelf.

You think this kind of pressure is easier just kidding yourself.

Good morning and welcome to episode 536 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspective presented by the baseball reference dot com play index.

I am Ben Lindbergh of grantland dot com joined as always by Sam Miller of baseball perspectives.

Hello, how are you?

Okay, are you following the Matt Albers game use pants auction?

I am very much.

What do we got an email from a listener named Steven a couple days ago who sent us a link to an eBay auction for Matt Albers game use pants.

Now the title says Matt Albers game use pants Houston Astros, but this is not actually an Astros pant is it it's purchased from the Astros minor league affiliate in the api league.

So this is minor league Matt Albers pants and right now there are zero bids this auction has been going on for a couple days I suppose and there are six days left as we record this starting bid of twenty five dollars no one has placed an opening bid yet.

I've considered it I if I could wear them I would buy them but it does it size size right.

The size is unfortunately albersian yes 38 waist 38 waist 30 30 length yeah either one of those works for a human is my.

But anyone who's listening who thinks those might fit if you're interested in Matt Albers game use pants I'll put the official the official game used pants of effectively while I will put a link in the Facebook group.

If you have several days to conduct a bidding war with each other it says it has his name written on there on the tag like a uniform ever like he went to camp campings.

And yeah generally this is something that I could get behind but so I guess what we need to do been probably you and I should each identify the ball player who is the closest to our size and then set up an alert for game use pants of that players size yeah we probably should so hard to find accurate height weight stats though yeah let alone waist size I would yeah that's true I am.

Well and you are not what one would consider a I guess like if you were a pitcher they wouldn't call you projectable.

No if I were I were a pitcher they would call me compact they would they would yes they would they would worry that you couldn't get downhill playing yes right meanwhile I don't have I don't know what they would say about me but I think they would say that you could beat me in inside

because I don't have much strength that could be I think if I were writing about me I would refer to me as wispy I'm at least as tall as Marcus Strowman all or I think so that's something maybe Marcus Strowman okay so email show questions let's start we got a couple jeeter related questions and we did a whole show on jeeter so we won't do another one but we can answer.

A couple jeeter questions this one comes from our friend Dan Brooks of BP and of the Ponomous pitch FX website who says suppose that jeeter being a negative 2.5 win player or they're about decides he wants to come back after all and play shortstop for the Yankees let's suppose against all personality indications that he's extremely aggressive about it he starts a media campaign where he asks fans to write in for him to have just one more year.

At his current salary of course he makes public appearances in his Yankees jersey he signs endorsement deals as the Yankees shortstop he wants this I figure he can probably come back but what about next off season when he decides he wants to play one more season and another and another and another how many some replacement seasons at shortstop do you think jeeter's legacy has bought him from one the fans how many years could he convince fans that he's actually the best player for the job even while being below replacement level

to his teammates how many years with his teammates keep saying yeah I hope jeeter comes back for another fail farewell. Oh yeah I hope jeeter comes back he's such an important part of our team to accept should be three the front office how many years could he pull this off remember he has to play short no D Hing just the captain.

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