There's one thing I have said

Is that the dreams I once had now I am bed

As the four winds blow my wits through the door

It's been the worst day since yesterday

Good morning and welcome to episode 863 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Perspectus presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at baseballreference.com

I am Bill Mimberg of 538 joined by Sam Miller of Baseball Perspectus,

Low Sam. You have to be so excited, Ben. Yeah, you're probably the second happiest person on this

podcast and the next two people that you're going to hear from are less happy than we are

and we're gathered here today for a very important purpose and that is to determine which team

has had the most depressing, demoralizing start to the 2016 season. I think there are only two

possible answers to this question and they are both teams that have not won a game yet.

We are talking about the O and 9 Minnesota twins and the O and 9 at Lanta Braves and we have

convened a representative from each team here today and speaking on behalf of the Braves,

we have Alex Remington who works for the Washington Post and is a writer for the Hardball Times

and an editor at Braves Journal. Hello, Alex and our condolences. Thank you for having me and

thank you for those wonderful condolences. And speaking on behalf of the twins, we have the

Dean of Twins bloggers long time, writer at AaronGleeman.com and co-host of the Gleeman and the Geek

podcast. Aaron Gleeman. Hello, Aaron and our condolences to you. Hello, thank you for the condolences.

Didn't we just do the last team against team roundtable that we did was whether the twins or the

who is the other team should feel happier? Well, we did we did an episode with Aaron only, I think,

where we talked about the twins and whether whether they were actually as good as they appeared

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