Standing in a slime zone, going through a time zone, stepping in a slime zone, going through a time zone.

Good morning and welcome to episode 869 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective brought to you by our supporters on Patreon, as well as the CleanDex at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of 538, Hey Ben.

Hello.

How are you?

Okay, this is the same Sam Miller who had a opinion piece published in the New York Times this weekend.

Only because you were too big shot to do it.

Yeah, I don't stir myself for little rags like the Grey Lady.

We're also joined by Jason Vajakovsky.

Hey Jason.

Hi guys.

The official legal analyst of baseball, Perspectives' Daily Podcast Effectively Wild.

And I don't know if you knew this, but when people asked me my favorite episode, I always say it was the one when you came on and had the discussion with us about the Express written consent.

Well, that's good. I don't remember that, so I hope I gave good advice, but I'm glad that somebody enjoyed it, particularly somebody in a position to matter.

It was a good couple of weeks of the show.

The show has had some periods where it just feels like for like two weeks fun things happen.

And it was around that time that we had Gabe Kapleron and it was around that time that a raccoon was walking on the roof, the ceiling right above me, because I was on in my backyard.

It was just a wild time.

Anyway.

I'm excited to rank above both Gabe Kapleron and a raccoon.

That's quite good.

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