Good morning and welcome to episode 743 of Effectively Wild Peak Daily Podcast from baseball

perspective presented by the play index at baseballreference.com and Ben Lindbergh of Grantland

Trump by Sam Miller of baseball perspective hello hello actually is morning for

once when I say good morning we're down to two games at one time now so more

manageable schedule exciting games tonight yeah so are we just gonna talk about

Cubs first or Met Stodgers first do you have a preference do you want to start

anywhere else can I first just start with one small thing I just want to say I

don't know if you've listened to hang up and listen this week have you I have

not yet Mike Pasca unlocks the key to listening to a Cal Ripkin broadcast game

without growing resentful with rage and the key is just everything he says

whatever he says just in your mind mentally preface it with so kids if you're

out there listening to this yeah that's good there is just a lot of very

generic baseball instruction going on yeah he just sort of disappeared for a few

innings today I don't think I heard him for like a half hour at least is that

right yeah and didn't miss him much but I noticed that he wasn't talking anymore

yeah all right so Dave Cameron pointed out the pitch tracker that we were talking

on the other day is maybe not a mystery why it's so weird it's just the rule

book strike zone and we're used to seeing the strike zone as it's actually called

never sort of surprised because the comments on his article I mean his article

was that you know TBS has to change this because all the other networks have it

the other way have the strike zone as it's actually called and that's what

people expect to see and the way that TBS has it everyone thinks that every game

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