My eyes are open and again I see you as your machin' and I'll bring you cover

When you're cold you'll bring me youth when I grow

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Good morning and welcome to episode 822 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball

Perspectus brought to you by the Play Index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538 A.B.

Hello, later in the show George will be talking to Susan Susser of the San Francisco Chronicle

and in the meantime Ben and I will be talking to Claire McNier of espionation and the author of this year's

A's essay in the baseball respect is annual hello Claire.

Hey there.

How are you?

You're well, how about you?

Pretty good.

So your essay which I loved one of my very favorites was about the fans who hate Billy Bean

and one of the reasons that I liked it so much is because I have not spent much of my life thinking

about how there must be fans, A's fans who hate Billy Bean.

We spend so much time and have for the past decade and a half kind of lionizing him as a

you know revolutionary figure in the field but of course every GM is despised you know in his hometown

to some degree and that Billy Bean is no exception.

So I wanted to know because the A's first I'll add a couple of unnecessary clauses before I say what I want to know.

The A's are coming off of really kind of their second golden age maybe in a sense of the

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