You know, Homer, it's very easy to criticize.

Fun too.

Good morning.

Good Monday morning.

And welcome to episode nine of Effectively Wild,

the Daily Baseball Perspectives podcast.

In Vancouver, Canada, I am Ben Lindbergh,

and in Long Beach, California,

in the same time zone as I am for once.

It is Sam Miller joining me this morning. Hello, Sam.

I bet. How are you?

I am well. You survived without me.

You flourished without me, even.

I would survive without me. I mean, you didn't make a podcast,

but you're still alive.

Yeah. And I think Ian Miller,

for doing a great job of filling in,

after I was unable to perform.

And it was close.

And we had a really poignant interaction on Thursday night,

where I was in the remote Canadian wilderness

and I did have an internet connection,

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