Sitting here wondering how the things go wrong

Every night asking myself what happened to our happy home

Will I ever see you again?

I need to know my friends

Past is gone

Tomorrow

Good morning and welcome to episode 880 of effectively wild the daily podcast for baseball perspectives brought to you by the play index at baseball reference.com

And our Patreon supporters. I'm Sam Miller along with Benlin Merga 538. Hey Ben. Hello. How you doing?

Just itch and to tell people about our upcoming events. So I will do that now. Tomorrow in Washington DC

I will be at busboys and poets at 6.30 p.m. That's at 5th Street Northwest and on Thursday

I will be at the Burkino baseball clubhouse on East 11th Street at 7 p.m. And you will be in San Francisco at 6 p.m.

Also on Thursday at book passage at one ferry building. So you can find the details of those things on the website. There is an events page on the only rule is it has to work.

So come see us and hear us and get your book signed. Yep. This will be fun. Right? You've done it. I haven't done it this week. It was very fun. Any advice for me?

No, you can't be yourself. How long do they go?

I was probably at the one last week for an hour and a half. No, wow. Okay. Yeah. I don't know that they will all go that one. Depends how many people show up and how many questions they have and how many books they buy.

That's the length of the feature film jungle book. So if you are trying to decide what to do an hour and a half, that's really the choice. That's the choice before you.

Yep. Only two options. Stephen Strasberg signed an extension. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Well, sort of surprised. We've all been bracing for the Strasberg Harper Departures for years now, right? It's what, seven year deal, heavily backloaded. Maybe he doesn't want to risk getting hurt again because he has been hurt before.

I mean, he'd only have to stay healthy for another less than five months to get a bigger deal than this.

Well, so say you're the nationals and you're you're like, yeah, man, you know, it's going to suck to lose Stephen Strasberg. Should we go? Should we have an, should we offer an extension and someone else because it is never going to take it. They'll never take it. Come on. They'll never take it. And you go, well, let's just try what what should we offer him?

Seven years, not 175 million. Oh, he's not going to take that. He's going to he's not going to take that. Well, let's just try. Okay. So you're happy that you're going to go propose this and Scott Boris says, yeah, sure, we'll take that.

How now how scared are you that like what is it tell you that Strasberg accepted this? Is it if you're the nationals, do you now think we should have traded him? Yeah, it's a, it would be a little happy at first and then sort of taken a back like is there something we didn't know because

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