It's naive to make believe that you're right.

It's not bright.

Only fools go walking on thin ice.

Twice.

You and life can skip the strife and you both.

Get along.

All it takes is simply saying you're wrong.

When you're wrong and everybody has the right to be wrong.

Good morning and welcome to episode 826 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective brought to you by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller.

Along with Ben Lindbergh of 538, Hey Ben, hello.

In the second half of this show, George will be talking to Rustin Dodd of the Kansas City star.

The really probably the best royals beat writer at the Kansas City star since Sam Mellinger, in my opinion,

controversial perhaps.

But we're joined by Sam himself.

Hi, Sam. How are you?

I'm great. I'm great. How are you?

Good. You wrote the essay for this year's baseball perspective annual on the royals.

So that's what we're going to talk about.

One of the things you mentioned, in fact, the thing you led with was David Glass, the owner's patience with the team

that took a long time, obviously, to find its way to the world series.

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