Let's take an old fashioned walk. I'm just bursting with talk. What a tale could be told if we went for an old fashioned walk.

Let's take a stroll through the park, down a lane where it's dark. And a heart that's controlled may relax on an old fashioned walk.

Good morning and welcome to episode 722 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast from Baseball Prospectus presented by the play index at baseballreference.com

I'm Ben Lindbergh of Grantland joined by Sam Miller's cheeky chair from Baseball Prospectus.

That's the thing about the microphone is now you're getting desk recording instead of kitchen recording,

oven near the oven recording and desk has a creaky chair.

Put the microphone on the floor. That chair is creaky. It wasn't creaky two days ago.

It was. Yeah it was. It's been cre- it's a 120 year old chair and it's been creaky for 119 years.

So now I have to buy you a non antique chair and send that to you too.

So this is our second attempt at episode 722. We had some technical difficulties the other day when we tried to record.

We talked for half an hour so I would say it was a fringe average episode, maybe a maybe a solid average episode.

And at the end of it, my voice was the only voice on the recording. But you were actually there right? I was talking to you.

Yeah, okay. And I know there's a lot of outrage out there on Twitter about Ben and what he did, how he messed things up.

And I just I know that people are calling for him to be fired. And and I stand by Ben. I stand by you.

Thank you. I would consider you on probation. Okay. That's there.

If it happens twice, I'm out. Yeah. Okay. You would be you would.

I wonder how many times in a row would you have to record and have it not record before you fit?

It's one of the most demoralizing feelings that I experience in my daily life. It's not like a it's not like a traumatic.

It's not a family loss or something. But just in my day to day work life, something not recording that I thought was recording is one of the worst feelings.

When I was working on a story recently, I talked to a guy for about 25 minutes and it was great. And I was all ready to transcribe it.

And then the same thing happened on a different computer. I know why that one happened. I don't know why hour one happened.

But it was pretty terrible when you open it up and you're all ready for those juicy quotes and it's gone forever.

...