Good morning and welcome to episode 550 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Perspectives presented by the amazing play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben

Lindbergh, who is a very good, saber-metric writer with virtually no BS in his writings. Hi Ben. Hello. How are you? Okay, and my

writings are for Grantland.com. We should mention. I am well. I am looking forward to talking to you about baseball.

So I went to the Giants Nationals game and I was in one point I was in one of the standing

room only sections and was talking to a woman next to me and suddenly in the middle of her

conversation she stopped and she points to something behind me and says, oh that's a really

cute sign. I bet that'll get on TV and I didn't even have to turn around. I didn't even have to

look then. I knew and I turned around and indeed it was a man with a sign fashioned out of a broom

that said how sweet it is. Of course. Well, that's it. The people loved that headline. I thought about

walking around. There were a lot of people with broom and I had an idea that I did not go through

with them just simply walking around and anytime someone with a I saw someone with a broom saying,

how sweet it is. You could have gotten a lot of high fives. All right. Anything to start with?

Well, I will mention my tweet which you responded to about Terrence Gory yesterday. I'll share the

results. I asked Twitter how many regular season games it thought Terrence Gory post-season

sensation will play next season and over the course of his whole career and got many responses

and yours was the most negative response or tied with the most negative. You were one of only two

respondents to say that he would play zero regular season games next year and zero regular season

games for the rest of his whole career. The averages were 23 regular season games next year

and 150 career. So explain to me. Well, for the 23 seems ludicrous. There's no way he's playing

23 games next year, right? That does seem too high. Yes. One of the reasons why I asked this is

because I was kind of curious whether with all the attention on Gory who is pretty much an

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