Put some football on the tube and

crack yourself a beer

The NBA's on NBC, the juice has PGA

And baseball's like some distant dream

of warmer, brighter days

Good morning and welcome to episode 5 and 93 of Effectively Wild the Daily podcast from baseball perspective

brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Linberg of Grantland. Hi Ben.

Hello

And you know if we recorded eight episodes in the next three days

We could end the year on a multiple of a hundred. I'm up for it

We're joined today by Zachary Levine who is a friend of the show. Maybe the I can't remember did we determine that you're the most frequent guest?

I think there was a tie in there somewhere but you and Russell might have been right up there too

So not anymore

She ate the invitation. Yeah, don't sleep on Jason. Jason Bojikowski is up there too. Yeah

Up there, but not as up there. I'm pretty sure Jason's not ahead of Zachary. I don't know. You might be sliding him

So

Zachary's here to inspire us to talk about something but

Ben, do you have any three-man banter? I really don't

Glad that Zachary is here even more than usual because he is saving us. We're just gonna put our feet up on the

podcast desk and let him let him take the reins because I have nothing to say about baseball right now

Maybe that will change in the next half hour or so

Yeah, there haven't been any games played in the last five days and

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