Good morning and welcome to episode 885 of Effectively While, the daily podcast from baseball

perspectives brought to you by the plane dex at baseballreference.com and by each and

every one of our generous Patreon supporters. I'm Sam Miller along with Ben Lindbergh of

538, Hello Ben. Hello. How are you? Doing okay? Got in the banter based on all

that hot baseball activity since the last time we recorded. Yeah not so much. People don't know this,

but it hasn't been that long since you and I spoke. It may have been 24 hours since you, the listener,

listened to episode 884. It may have been days, weeks, months, years, we don't know, but it's only

been about five hours since you and I stopped talking. I have nothing new to say. I thought you might

have wanted to talk about the top of the first between Cincinnati and Cleveland. No, what did I miss?

Well Brandon Phillips doubled the left, Joivato scored. Oh yeah okay. I actually was considering

bantering about Joivato not being Joivato like and are less than so, but I don't have too much to

say about it other than that's weird. What has he been like? He's been like a bad hitter,

which is not like Joivato at all. Yeah. He faked out Philly's fans over the weekend by pretending to

be about to toss a foul ball to them and then didn't and then fist pumped at his own non-throw,

which was amusing. I wonder how much of that was based on his frustration about not being good

this year and how much of it was just that was a funny thing to do and he would have done that

regardless. So you've seen that fake this one? Yes, I have not. It's amusing. I don't know if it's

an insight into his psyche or not, but Joivato as we speak, he is batting 215358355. He's not. You missed

the top of the first. No, that includes the top of the first. Uh-oh, that's life. All right.

Let's see, I'm watching the fake out fan on the foul ball.

I like the fist pump. He really sold it. I actually like the semi-smirk. Yeah, that too.

Is he's moving away? They're Philly's fans. Yeah, so... And I think there was one particular

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