Good morning and welcome to episode 71 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast, coming to you from Evacuation Zone B in Manhattan.

I am Ben Lindbergh and in his Honda Fit, where I assume it is 70 and and

balmy and not sunny because it's nighttime, but it will be sunny tomorrow.

Sammler, how's the weather in your part of the world?

Well, we have Santa Anna Wins now, so it's very warm and what happens with Santa

Anna Wins is that usually they're followed by about a thousand massive fires.

So if you're feeling jealous that there's no attention being given to our natural disasters,

it will happen fairly soon.

You'll get your turn, your turn will come.

Well, I am one block away from the edge of Evacuation Zone A, which if you're inside

there, you already had to evacuate earlier this evening.

So I'm hoping to hide out here.

What about the diner that's open 24 hours a day and delivers?

The diner is closed, so that is how I knew that this was serious.

What about your 7-11?

7-11?

I don't know, I know the subway closed early, the 7-11 was open when I was coming back

from the grocery store, but I don't know if it's open now.

Do you mean the subway restaurant or the train?

The subway restaurant, the train is definitely closed.

Oh, wow.

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