Standing on the moon, where talk is cheap and visual true.

Standing on the moon, but I would rather be with you.

Somewhere in San Francisco, on a back porch in July,

just looking up at heaven.

Good morning and welcome to episode 701 of Effectively Why, The Daily Podcast.

From baseball perspective brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh of Grantland. Hello Ben.

Hello. How are you? I'm alright.

Okie Doke. I wanted to ask you about a thing.

This is a fun fact that has been going around the internet today.

You may have seen it. I've seen it multiple places.

I think I was going to ask you about the same fun fact possibly.

Ok, so I'm going to go to Chris Swicks right up of it.

The Red Sox started David Ortiz at first base Sunday.

Alright, so it's a two way fun fact.

Part one is that it was the first time in the Red Sox history

that the team did not have a first baseman record, a put out.

And what makes it a fun fact, as opposed to interesting, is that David Ortiz was starting at first base at Fenway for the first time in 10 years.

So, LOL, because you would think like David Ortiz, he can't play first base.

And then the day they put him there, a historic lack of activity surrounds him.

Yeah, although the doubt about David Ortiz was not that he could stand there and catch someone else's throw.

Thanks, sirly.

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