Ali is raining sideways. Sounds rough, Ali. Do you have an umbrella?

Had one? Where is it? Inside out two miles away.

Is there anything we can do for you? Bring me some soup. What kind?

Chalky! Good evening and welcome to episode 72 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseballperspectus.com. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach, California.

Still hanging on in New York, New York is Ben Lindbergh. Ben, how are you doing?

I am in a flooded neighborhood, but somehow I still have power everywhere.

Two bucks south of me and below has gone dark. How many more days does this last?

I think the worst of it is supposed to be right now, and then it will kind of linger for

another day, day and a half or so. But we're like the Postal Service of podcasts, I guess.

Yeah, except for those days.

No, although occasionally we will over sleep in alarm or something.

We have missed for no reason whatsoever, but we never missed it.

Right. So what do you want to talk about? We're back to our old format. What do you want to talk about?

My topic should be right in your wheelhouse. I want to talk about the Angels rotation.

And I'll talk about the 2013 World Series odds.

So why don't you go first?

Okay, so the Angels are facing a couple of decisions in the next day or two here.

This is the time of year when teams have to decide whether to pick up 2013 options on players

and two-fifths of the Angels rotation are guys who have options for next year. Dan Heron has a

15 and a half million dollar option. And Irvin Santana has a 13 million dollar option.

And so they have to decide whether to exercise one or both of them or decline one or both of them

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