Good morning and welcome to effectively wild the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives. Today we are celebrating episode 87 the last before a long weekend. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach

California. I'm with Ben Linberger in New York New York. Ben, it is an email Wednesday. We got a lot of

emails. We will get some of them. We apologize to those that we can't get to. Some of them might be

reborn in later episodes and some of them we will just forget about. Yes.

A lot of them are offseason topics that are evergreen or at least green for the next few months.

So we will exactly we will get to them. We'll circle back. I don't know whether anyone's

listening because it's the day before Thanksgiving or whether more people are

listening and depending on us to get them through 20 minutes of their trip home or wherever

they're going. But we will get to the questions I guess. So the first question is from Tim

and Seattle. He says the Giants likely wouldn't have played in the World Series if a combination

of the media and computer rankings chose who played the World Series. I don't believe the Giants

would have been in the discussion. I think the Giants earn their place in history by their

epic comebacks against the Reds and Cardinals. Still if there existed a BCS type system in

baseball, I think the Nationals and the Yankees would have been the highest ranked.

Should baseball adopt a system like the one college football is abandoning.

And then he asks do people smarter than me think baseball should adopt such a system?

Are people smarter than me satisfied with the way baseball chooses a champion? I don't

know why he's asking us. We don't even know how smart he is.

No, right. Timothy is going to need to email us back and let us know how smart he is before we can

answer those questions. But and he asks does this discussion matter? I don't know.

But we'll have it briefly anyway. So yeah, well the thing is that the BCS, the idea behind the

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