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Live drive to keep the team alive.

Good morning and welcome to episode 561 of Effectively Wildly Daily Podcast

from baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

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

perspective. Hello.

How are you?

Good.

I probably should have said good afternoon because most of you will not be

listening in the morning.

We are recording in the morning in our time zones after game 1 of the World

Series and it was not the most entertaining World Series game.

It was probably the least entertaining World Series game.

Well, by default, but it was probably one of the least entertaining games

period this postseason in a month when we've been spoiled by lots of one-run games

and nail-biteers and extra-eating games.

This one was decided fairly early or seemed to be decided fairly early and was, as it turned out.

So I was at the game and wrote about that a little bit and you watched the game and

wrote about that a little bit and we talked about some similar points.

I guess the takeaway other than James Shields being bad and Madison Bunkarner being

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