Good morning and welcome to episode 65 of Effectively Wild Daily Podcast.

I'm trying to figure out whether it's well beyond the point where it would interfere with the delivery or the follow-through or anything.

If you could get it out of your head as the picture, if it's your home field and you're used to pitching with the tree, it probably wouldn't bother you after a while.

If you were a visiting pitcher who was not used to pitching with a tree, then that would probably be pretty distracting.

But you get used to it way before you get used to being a visitor and hitting the tree.

I think the pitcher would get used to it by if not the end of his nine warm-ups.

And he could probably go out before the game and warm-up.

I guess it's right where the batting practice pitcher would be too.

Yeah, it's a sapling.

So it's going to grow or it would have. It's been removed already, sadly.

But it would have grown. But I guess if it grew, then the canopy would just get even farther from the field.

Right now there's a branch coming off the side of it that is probably in the ball's flight path.

Yeah, for the right hand it could be.

Yeah, and maybe that branch would have some leaves and would develop some greenery that could be an obstacle.

But over time you'd get a thicker trunk, but less canopy or branch involvement.

I don't know what that would do. Be a very interesting experiment.

They should have left it because really he cares about the results of this high school baseball team.

But if it had a tree, suddenly everyone cares.

Yeah, no, I agree. So are we in agreement that this is the ideal place to put a tree?

Like if you're going to put a tree on a baseball field, there's really no debating this, right?

I think so. I mean, it seems like the pit and the tree kind of go hand in hand as far as placement.

I don't know that I agree with that. The pit, the idea for the pit, your main goal for a pit is to create the maximum amount of laughing at them falling.

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