You got to fight everyday, you keep me and I could do your thing.

You got to fight everyday, you keep me and I could do your thing.

You got to fight both on your mat, not to get in the bleeding hearts' way.

Good morning and welcome to episode 620 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from baseballperspectives.com,

brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, High Bend.

Hello.

Later in the show, Sahadev will be talking to Dan Hayes of CSN Chicago.

And right now we have Tim Marchman, who wrote the essay about the White Talks for the annual this year

and is the editor in chief of Dead Spin Hi-Tim.

Hey, what's up, Get?

Congratulations on your job.

Oh, thanks. Yeah, it's pretty fun so far.

I am doing it.

Awesome. All right, great. White Talks.

So you're as sort of started with kind of a recap of what the White Talks have been for the last many decades.

And what they've been is kind of an ordinary team.

They don't have a distinguishing feature.

And in most cases, they haven't even really had a distinguishing player.

Besides kind of, I don't know, lucky into, but having Frank Thomas Lane in their organization,

they've never really been the team that went after the great player.

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