And I waited so long for my sunshine, sunshine, sunshine.

And I waited so long, trying to put it in song, where the rise is gone.

Living in Christ's back after all.

Hello and welcome to episode 8-11 of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus,

presented by the play index of baseballreference.com.

I am Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus.

Hi, yo, how are you?

Okay, great.

This morning Craig Calcuttaira, whose job is to write about baseball every day,

wrote it's a profoundly slow day in the world of baseball.

But here we are, because we have to talk about baseball every day too.

So a couple of follow-ups from yesterday,

the intentional walk that shocked and appalled us.

Some additional evidence was uncovered by Twitter user named Jeff Good.

And this was the 1989 intentional walk of Alvaro Espinoza

by Roger Clemens to get to an excellent left-handed hitter,

Ken Phelps, who pinched it.

And we couldn't understand why this happened.

There were two outs at the time also.

And Espinoza was not good,

although he was a decent single-hitter.

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