Switching all the time, switching ain't no crime

I got jeans and climate, I got to raise my rate

You see a boy in motion, there's never much to lay

Switching your baby, oh, get to social and you know

When you pick it, you get star and it'll have to be so

Good morning and welcome to episode 773 of effectively wild

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I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Linberger 538, hi Ben

Oh, how are you doing? Okay

Anything you want to talk about today Ben?

Well Lloyd McClendon was hired to manage the Toledo mudhens

It seems like a weird transition, right?

It doesn't seem like a lot of major league managers go from major league manager to minor league manager

Multitim major league manager experienced manager who's managed for multiple teams

Maybe he figures that being the AAA manager for the Tigers when Brett Osmos is fired is like your best shot of being a manager again

It is like looking at all the closers and figuring out which setup guy you should pick up by who's got the shakiest hold on the ring

So he's like he's a yeah, he's a wobbly chair assessor he's analyzed all the chair solidities

And he thinks that Osmos is the wobliest so he's next in line maybe but it's a weird move

It's like it's not quite Ruben Amaro becoming the Red Sox first-paced coach after being a GM

But it's up there you definitely don't see guys going back down to the miners in a full time role like that these days

Yeah, when you said it's not quite I don't know what metric we're using to measure these moves but it's plus

I kind of feel like it maybe is more surprising to me although you're right the Osmos angle is solid

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