Thank you friends, wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you.

And so beautiful, through all the things you helped me do.

All the memories and trends of man who made this all so probable.

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to episode 774 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus, presented by the Play Index at BaseballReference.com.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller, a baseball prospectus. Hello.

Hello.

Our plan was not to record a Thanksgiving episode, but this is Take 2. This is our second attempt at this listener email show.

We had a technical malfunction.

I won't mention the program that we used to record our calls or that I used to record them because I feel like it would not be fair to single it out at the rare instance when it didn't work, when it serves us faithfully most of the time.

But after we tried to record and only ended up with about 10 minutes of the fairly long show we did, I went to their update page and saw that there was a new version.

And the new version was released because a few users were reporting interruption of call recording before actual call was ended.

So I am now one of those users. We got a new version now. We're ready to go.

Okay.

And ironically, I always update software. I find software updates extremely satisfying.

Do you?

Yeah, I don't know about you, but it ranks right up there with unsubscribing from emails.

If I can update some software and unsubscribe from an email, I consider it a successful day.

What do you mean unsubscribed from an email?

How are you on a lot of mailing lists?

Yeah, I never subscribed to an email, but somehow I am subscribed to a bunch of them.

I'm just, I'm very vigilant because I like the emails I get to be real emails, not people trying to sell me something I don't want.

I don't know how I end up on those kinds of emails, but whenever I do, I click unsubscribed.

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