I wonder the earth but now I'll come back here to live there for the season

and to be with you

I wonder the world of our lives on this sphere but I don't need reasons

Good morning and welcome to episode 854 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives brought to you by our Patreon supporters, thank you to each and every one of you,

and by the Playindex at baseballreference.com, I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lemberg of 538,

Hey Ben, how are you?

All right, do you watch any of yesterday's games?

I did, in between 5 hours of Wrestlemania, I watched the Cardinals Pirates game in its entirety

and then pieces of the other games, I made it back from Wrestlemania in time to see Jonas Espittus strike out to end the Met's Royals game.

Oh really, I was hoping that my attention to baseball during this podcast would be interrupted by people randomly talking about pro wrestling, so...

It's gonna happen just like I'm there again.

Yep, if I start singing for Rider right now, it'll be just like my Sunday.

I enjoyed the baseball, yesterday I watched all three games, but I kind of found it frustrating to go straight from,

in a sense to go straight from postseason baseball to yesterday because the game, the Met's and the Royals game,

for instance, was a very, you know, like in a sense it was just as exciting as a playoff game, you know,

the teams starting their number one or two starters, you had this close game, this really, you know,

phenomenally close game toward the end, you had all this excitement and suspense, and yet you also had a game that was managed very much like a regular season game instead of like a postseason game.

And it is kind of nice to get to the postseason and have managers do things that they don't normally do, but that I wish they always would.

And so to get thrown right back into this long season where they, you know, have to leave their starter in for a long time and don't do it like, you know, for instance, the primary,

I noticed this in the Pirates Cardinals game two where it felt like starters were left in too long, but only too long by postseason standards.

Like if this were a random August game, I would have completely forgotten how the postseason works and I wouldn't have thought anything of it, but you kind of get spoiled in the postseason when you see starters pulled earlier, which is how I would like it to be.

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