Song is gone, I overslept and woke up to the shelf fall

Over a wharton now I'm all used up

This TV haze sucks me through I watch the world from inside

Over a wharton now I'm all used up

Good morning and welcome to episode 553 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball

Perspectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland.com joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus

Today we are going to continue talking about the playoffs

We will get into some of the ALCS stuff later on in the show

But first we will talk about broadcasting

One of the constants in October is complaints about broadcasters

Really regardless of the network, the transition from local crews during the regular season to national crews

During the playoffs seems to get on the nerves of a lot of people or at least a lot of people that I follow on twitter

And one of the major complaints tends to be that broadcasts are not very statistically literate

You are going to get a lot of talk about shutdown innings and stats versus the top 10 pitchers and wins

And a lot of guys saying small sample but this guy is 2 for 4 against that guy

And at 8pm on Saturday you can get the regular broadcaster used to

You can turn on Fox and Joe Buck and Harold Reynolds will be there calling the NLCS game 1 with the rest of the regular crew

But if you are so inclined there is another option

There is an alternative that may be of interest to some of the statistically inclined listeners in our audience

If you turn on Fox Sports 1 you will get the NLCS on Fox Sports 1 powered by just a bit outside

The microsite that was launched a few months ago run by Rob Nyer

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