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Good morning and welcome to episode 7 of Effectively Wild, the All Perspectice Daily Podcast.

We've already done this thing for a week's worth of days, can you believe that, Sam

Miller?

I am Ben Lindbergh in Manhattan, although by the time you're listening to this, I will

be airborne and bound for British Columbia.

And in his Honda Fit, in Long Beach, California, my co-host is Sam Miller.

Hi Ben.

Hello.

So, what's your topic?

My topic was going to be the A's and the trades they made this off season.

Okay.

And I would like to talk about Steven Strasberg, which I wanted to talk about last week,

and we didn't, and so I'm trying it again.

I big-footed you under the old format.

Which would you like to discuss first?

Well, just do mine because I don't have much to say about it.

I was just thinking about how the A's are unexpectedly in position to make the playoffs,

and how nice it would be if they had Geogunzalas on their team.

And so I don't really have a fully formed opinion about this.

I'm kind of forming it slowly as I go, but I wondered what your thoughts were about

whether Billy Bean made the right decision to trade two of his starters, and maybe also

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