Good morning or at this point probably good afternoon and welcome to effectively wild

the baseball perspectives daily podcast our 63rd episode I am Ben Lindbergh in New York

New York. You are Sam Miller in Long Beach, California. We have one game to talk about from

yesterday so I figured we would pat out the podcast with 20 minutes or so on a rod

flirting with fans what do you think? Well we only need to pat about like 18

and a half minutes with that. Okay especially because if we really got

desperate we could we could make small talk about the Canadian rock bands

slow and watch last night instead of baseball. Yes I did and I do it again. Is

anybody going to be guiding this conversation? Do you have any plans? No not

really. We said you want me to talk about the game so let's talk about the game

what do you want to talk about? Well so I have two things that I just want

to mention or ask you about or something I want to meander around them I want

to circle them surround them get close to them but not actually touch them. I

also wanted though just before I get to those two things or get near those two

things I want to point out that Mike Kruko on K&B our last night was asked

about Matt Holliday's slide and he described it with a phrase that I have never

heard I probably have never heard because it has probably never been said and

yet if it is not a huge part of the sport from this point forward I'll be

disappointed he referred to it as Bushbowl Bushbowl that is of the Bush League

variety so Bushbowl you have an assignment get it into at least one piece every six

weeks or so so that we can keep it okay. Did you see the Matt Holliday slide? Yes

baseball is weird baseball to me is the weirdest thing how it is a totally

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