Good morning and welcome to episode 77 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

prospectus daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach,

California, he is Sam Miller. I don't hear any crickets and I haven't heard

crickets in ages. Are they still with us? There are a few. The neighbors still

have them more than I do. I'm not exactly sure why that is, although I have

stepped on many. Intentionally? Yes. Oh wow. Crickets are great because crickets

are almost impossible to step on with the first step. They're incredibly quick,

but then after their first leap away, they're like, okay, that's cool now. And they

just stay there. So you can just sort of very calmly go over and get rid of them with

the second one. This is a side to you. I've never suspected. I wonder if there are

probably people who aren't going to like me as much now. I don't think I've ever

killed a cricket. I've killed many other insects, but no crickets. Maybe because I live in

an apartment and there aren't any. So we said on yesterday's episode that we would be

doing a listener email show on Wednesday, which was true. And we will be doing one on Wednesday.

And we have a couple questions lined up and a couple guests lined up. Although you're

still welcome to submit your questions and comments to podcast at baseballperspectus.com.

Maybe we'll read them and talk about them. Or maybe we'll just laugh about them privately.

But we do have another listener email that we want to talk about today that we didn't want

to throw into the listener email show because it probably would have been a really, really long show.

Or we would have had to skimp on this one. So we're just going to talk about this one now. So it's

from listener Mike. And people should probably start telling us where they are or something or what

their Twitter handles are or something like that. So we can feel like more of a community. But Mike

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