Good morning and welcome to episode 86 of Effectively Wild, the baseball

perspective daily podcast. In New York, New York, I am Ben Lemberg and joining me,

Fresh Off, a softball defeat is similar. My condolences on your loss.

That's okay. But you did bring a topic and you, if in the interest of full disclosure,

did tell me about this topic ahead of time because you were worried that the softball would

prevent sufficient research to talk about this topic. So I know what you're going to say,

but no one else does. So why don't you say it? So we're going to talk about Commissioner Bud

CeeLigs' role in reviewing a trade and whether we should be worried that he feels the need.

So of course, Bud CeeLig, I believe today officially gave the, is today Monday? Yeah,

so today when I'm recording this, officially gave the all clear for the Blue Jays and the Marlins

to swap teams. And there, what was it? Something like six days after?

Six days after. Only six days. Okay, so it took six days for baseball to decide that this trade

was going to go through. Now, of course, they didn't overrule it. There is no new precedent set here

or anything of the sort. There's nothing really even to be furious about. This is not,

this is, you know, they gave their blessing. That's all it was. But I think that it's just the very

nature or the very, sorry, the very act of taking this time to carefully review it. The idea that

they need to carefully review it already sets a precedent. It feels to me like Bud CeeLig sort of

staked out a little bit more territory for his role in these trades. And even if he did not

nix the trade, he did kind of allow the impression that he gets to nix the trade if he wants to.

And he said that, you know, he talked to independent baseball people who reassured him that the

Marlins, you know, came out okay in this trade as though that is the issue. And, you know,

maybe that is the issue. Maybe I don't know that I, I don't know that I want to say so early

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