This could be a night, but can't you play it right?

Tonight, go downtown, springfield, where tonight?

Good morning and welcome to episode 740 of Effectively Wild The Daily Podcast

from baseball perspectives presented by the Play Index at baseballreference.com

I am Ben Lindbergh of Grantland, joined by Sam Miller, a baseball

perspective. Hello. Hello. Any in the week on a good old fashioned multiple of five?

Just the way I like it.

Mmm. Mmm. It's gonna be a good weekend, Ben.

It is. It's not one of those multiple of fives from this summer when we were doing

one show a week and it didn't feel like we'd earned it. This is legitimate.

Yeah. We only did what do we do before this week? I mean, we didn't catch up to the fives by doing six.

No. We come to the fives by doing less than five.

I think I did a six once just so I could do that.

I think you did with Russell, right? Yeah.

Or maybe you just did a five when you could do it. You did a holiday. Yeah, you did like a...

You did some holiday that otherwise no sane person would have recorded on.

Right, right. Okay. So today we'll talk a little bit about the NNDSs.

We can talk about any thoughts we might have from early ALDSs if we have any.

Eski Magic didn't work out so well.

No, I gave one.

But that's the thing about Magic is you don't think it's gonna come together until the reveal.

Yeah, right. So Game Five, Eski will come up with...

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