I'm looking into the quesad, castles on their keepspell, waiting on their siege for the turning tide.

But with some inspiration, time to hitch a ride on the turning tide.

Good morning and welcome to episode 630 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lindbergh of Greatland and on the phone with a faulty internet connection is my co-host Sam Miller of baseball perspective. Hello Sam.

You know what else is I have a, I have had just this insane cough for like four or five days, like one of the worst of my life.

And I was fine on Wednesday and Thursday because I could mute it, but on the phone there's no mute.

And so you guys are going to be in person.

Fones have mute buttons, I believe.

Not this one.

Oh right, yeah, so you've got your last generation communication device.

No, no, I'm not only am I not only do I not have wireless access, but at the moment I am on a landline.

Landline, okay.

I think there's actually even a fire, you know, a fire in a fireplace down the hall.

And we are super old timing today.

Great. All right.

Well, today is the Met's preview podcast continuing our series of team preview podcasts from worst projected record to best.

We are what at least halfway through this thing, maybe more.

So today is the Met's later in our second segment, BP is the hot of Sharma.

We'll be speaking to Mark Carrig, the Met's beat writer for Newsday.

But right now we have the pleasure of speaking to the Met's annual essay author and a writer for USA Today Sports Tedberg.

Hey Ted.

Hey Ben, thanks for having me on.

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