Hey, quick note just before we begin, this episode was recorded before Michael Sonders was almost,

but not quite traded to the angels. So now you know, and you won't wonder why there's an appalling

lack of Michael Sonders' almost trade discussion in this episode. Okay, enjoy.

Today, till the angels hung around, till the angels hung around, till the angels hung around,

as they carried me away.

Hello and welcome to episode 824 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from Baseball

Perspectus presented by the play index at BaseballReference.com. I am Ben Lentberg of 538 joined by Sam Miller,

who is roving around on his cell phone today. And we're doing the next team in our preview series,

which is the angels later in this episode. George Bissell will be talking to Pedro Morra,

who covers the angels for the LA times. But first, we have the pleasure and honor of talking to

this year's BP Annual Essay author for the angels. This is his third BP Annual Essay and his third

year on this podcast preview series. He is a contributing editor at Vice Sports and the co-founder of

the classical David Roth, a low David. Hi, how are you?

It's been a U.S. David before we came on how he got the angels of the, and I can actually,

I can answer with a little bit more detail because David, the first two years, got the

marlins and the Rockies, which suggest that either we give him the expansion teams or we give him the

sorry status, sack of the principal team. But in fact, the thing connecting the Rockies and the

Marlins was kind of a controversial or borderline crazy ownership. So the angels made sense because

Arty Marino is maybe the most active and controversial owner left. Well, I'm glad to know there

was such a good rationale behind it. That actually makes more sense because it does seem like there's

four or five words that I used to describe very wealthy people, but I don't like, you guys already

know that I know how to type those. So that would be a logical explanation for it.

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