Good afternoon and welcome to episode 66 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast in New York, New York, where it is pouring rain. I am Ben

Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California, where no doubt it is 70 and sunny. It is

similar. That's exactly right. It is exactly 70 and it is extremely sunny. So are

you not? Because we don't have the sadness of the Yankees hanging right. Are

you not recording from the garage now that we're doing these sort of ad hoc

afternoon shows? That's correct. Well, when we're recording the next day, I do

them from my house. Okay, that's why we haven't heard crickets in a while. That is

right. There are still a lot of crickets in case anybody is worried that the

season has ended for crickets. There will be crickets to come. Yes, I have been

wondering when we will hear the last crickets, but that's one of the things

that you can stay tuned to the podcast to find out. We have closure on one

championship series and we are one game away from closure in the other one.

Should we talk about the one that's over? I think we should talk exclusively about

the ones over today. Okay. We can talk about the other one tomorrow or Monday.

Yeah, that makes sense to me. We've got quite a while to go before the world

series starts, which is kind of odd because of how urgent the scheduling was up

until now and now there's just going to be a pretty long low. Yeah, I think that

it, I think that Major League Baseball's stated desire to not have games played

in November or whatever is actually probably not as significant as their

desire to start series on Saturdays or on weekends, but maybe that's just my

my guess. I think the, when are they starting at Thursday? Wednesday the

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