Boys! Boys! Boys! Boys keep swinging! Boys always working out!

Hello and welcome to episode 797 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseball perspective presented by the Playindex at baseballreference.com. I'm

Ben Lemberg of 538 joined by Sam Miller of baseball perspective. Hello! Yo! My book is

on the front page of baseball perspective. It's not that good there. Do you pull some strings?

I didn't. Wow. It just happened. Just by chance. Just by chance.

My knowledge. Just might be totally random. Just a randomly selected book. It's ours. Cool though.

Now if you want to buy our book you can click on this link at BP and BP will

probably get a few cents for that. That's actually that is probably now the best way to do it.

That is the best way to distribute your dollars. Links to the Amazon page but BP will get a tiny cut

of that. And I assume pre-ordering helps us not just because it locks in the sale but I assume

that pre-ordering will convince our publisher that things are going great and it might... I don't

know I've never done this but it wouldn't surprise me if there was some benefit to pre-ordering

as far as marketing and distribution booksellers. Booksellers.

If you're going to buy it, don't buy it if you don't want it. But if you're going to buy it

and I'm a huge believer in the idea that every dollar you spend is a vote. You are voting every

time you spend money. You are voting for the world to be the way you want the world to be.

If you want your whatever $20 of money that you're spending on your own entertainment to have

some tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny extra little poll, probably pre-order helps in a pre-order through BP,

even better. Exactly. Did you see the book show Walter quote about target and Chris Davis?

No. So he in the Baltimore Sun or he was doing a Q&A at a leadership conference and he was talking

about Chris Davis. Someone asked him about an update on Chris Davis and he says, I said to Chris

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