Sometimes hard to make, do a day, sometimes hard to find my name.

Sometimes hard to do is change your name, when your friends are for good.

Good morning and welcome to episode 639 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseballperspectus.

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

Hello.

How are you?

Swelth.

All right.

Later in the show, I will be talking to Andrew Asselport of Fox Sports, Florida, about the Tampa Bay

Rays.

In the meantime, we'll be talking to Adam Sobsi about the Tampa Bay Rays.

Hi, Adam.

Hi, guys. How are you?

Good. So Adam has written for baseballperspectus.

He has covered the Durham Bulls, the Rays AAA affiliate.

And he also co-wrote this amazing book called Bull City Summer, which he sent me because I begged him basically publicly to.

And I have never told him this.

I've never told him this, but it is one of the most beautiful books and one of the most enjoyable baseball reading experiences I've ever had.

And I've been meaning to tell him, but I didn't want to just sort of just fling it at him.

But in fact, it is an incredible book.

It chronicles Adam and some photographers and some writers chronicle a minor league season with tons of photographs, great writing, portraits,

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