Hello, and welcome to Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus.

This is episode 62.

You may have noticed that we are somewhat off-scheduled during the postseason.

Our apologies for that.

It will probably continue to be so as Ben and I both cover the postseason, but we will continue

to try to get you a Daily Podcast as early as possible.

Ben, you get a couple days off because I don't believe you are going to be traveling with

the Yankees, correct?

That's right.

I am completely off today, and then tomorrow I just have to watch a game from my couch.

We talked last week, or perhaps two weeks ago, about the value of beat reporters.

You have been doing something like beat reporting for the last couple days.

What have you been your impressions?

I'm tired and sick, and I don't know how they do it for an entire season, because yeah,

I've been going to games and writing about them for like five days or so, and I'm exhausted.

It's kind of hard to say whether I've done a better job of recapping these games because

I've been at them or not.

I was thinking about that this morning.

I mean, I have more quotes in my articles from players and sort of more clubhouse color,

I guess you could say, than I would have otherwise.

But when I'm at the games, I also feel like I'm a little less aware of what's going on

in the games just because for the most part, I'm not seeing every pitch on TV.

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