Hello and welcome to effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives. Today we are celebrating episode 59. It is Wednesday October 10th. I'm

with Ben Lindbergh in New York, New York. I'm Sam Miller and today we're also

joined by special guest Jason Vuchakowski. Jason how are you doing? I'm doing

better than I was doing three hours ago. Because the A's won and the reason that

we have you on here is partly because you are a well-known expert on the Oakland

athletics but I think really we have you on here because yesterday you infuriated

me with a series of tweets and there's a certain amount of risk in addressing

this topic because the reason that I was infuriated by your tweets is that I

did not care about your pet issue and yet now I'm going to force it on

everybody else. Because your issue yesterday which you were quite upset with was

the two three playoff format in which the Oakland A's had to, despite being

the the superior team, superior record and in a position of privilege, nonetheless

had to open the playoffs with two games on the road which as the case had it

left them down two games to none forced facing three consecutive elimination

games without ever being at home yet. So it seems fairly obvious to me that

this is actually no disadvantage at all or if it is a disadvantage it is

probably minor and it is not something that we can actually conclude is there

and yet you seem to think that this is the reason the A's are going to lose.

Do you care to explain your crazy scenario? Well it's certainly not the reason the A's

are going to lose. The reason the A's are going to lose is because of Justin

Verlander and the bullpen in game two, the A's bullpen in game two. So you know

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