I'm highways and ribbon, it makes a gift of everything.

Tonight I feel like Elf is longing for his long lost twin.

The sea of taillights that we all must win.

Tonight I feel like Elf is longing for his long lost twin.

Hello and welcome to episode 829 of Effectively Wild,

the daily podcast from baseball perspective,

presented by the play index at baseballreference.com.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sam Miller,

a baseball perspective, hello Sam.

I'm good Ben, how are you?

Alright, so today we are doing the Minnesota Twins preview podcast.

Later in this episode, George Bissell will be talking to Mike Barrett,

you know who is the beat writer for the Twins at the Pioneer Press.

But we have the pleasure of talking to this year's BP Annual essay author

for the Twins chapter, Ken Funk, hello Ken.

Hi Ben, I'm Kai Sam, how are you guys?

Alright, and it's always a pleasure to have you on.

You contribute to BP sometimes during the year, but annual season is really when you shine.

You come off the bench and you're just like the BP Annual Specialist

and you take two, three chapters every time and whoever's editing the book

will probably give you twice as many if you had the time to do that.

So always a pleasure to have you contribute to the book

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