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Good morning and welcome to episode 626 of effectively wild the daily podcast for baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseball reference.com

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

Hi, later in the show, Sahadav will be talking to Jordan Bastion of MLB.com and before that we will be talking to Brian Joyer, who is a writer living in Brooklyn in the author of this year's Indian's essay

in the BP Annual Highbride.

Hey, before we talk about the Indians, I want to ask both of you about Chris Young striking off a pitching machine today.

Did you guys see that Chris Young struck out against a pitching machine today?

I did not.

Who did not?

They played an interest squad game and they used a pitching machine instead of a pitcher.

And so a bunch of New York writers were tweeting the results as they happened, which seems like a hysterically unnecessary thing like that seems like taking spring training live tweeting to an uncomfortable place like man versus machine kind of place.

New York writers taking spring training to an uncomfortable place.

And then things happened.

A-rod went over to, which doesn't, is amusing.

I think that would be worth reading and maybe not quite worth discussing on here, but then Chris Young struck out.

And I just wonder if either of you have any insight into whether this is as hysterical as it sounds.

I guess a pitching machine is not a T. And I would imagine pitching machine technology these days is pretty impressive, right?

I mean, with nanotechnology and stuff out there in the world, there's probably pitching machines that are almost, almost sentient.

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