Welcome to Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from the baseball

prospectus. I'm here today with Ian Miller, who you know as Ian Miller or as Ian

the Vegan or as half of productive outs and a good friend to all of us. I'm sure.

Hi Ian. Ben is away. He's in British Columbia where I'm 90% sure he has

mistakenly gone to celebrate the London Olympics. His internet connection has

failed him. He's he'll be back for Monday's podcast, but he's not here today. Ian

has graciously agreed to step in and Ian is more interesting than Ben and I

ever are. So I think we're gonna be just fine. Ian. I'm thrilled and flattered to

have been asked. Well. Big fan of the show. First time long time. Thank you very

much. All seven episodes I imagine. Heck yeah. So do you have a topic that you'd

like to talk about today? Well, I figure the the front the top of my

topic for everybody right now has got to be this Matt Harvey kid, right? Oh good

I think this might be the first time that we've had two hosts who have said the

same topic and so we can just focus all nine minutes on him because that's what

I was gonna say as well. Did you see the star? I did not. Fortunately I had had

band practice and stuff, but just looking at Twitter occasionally and looking at

his line. Apparently it was incredible. It was incredible. Three walks in five and

a third and a couple of dogs. Yeah, it was incredible. It was very entertaining. I

think that there were I mean, you know, it's interesting. We we we watch these

guys make their debuts with so much baggage in our minds already about what

their strengths and what their weaknesses are and when he got drafted the the

comp that he he got thrown at him at least from the Metz was Mike Pellfree and so

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