Take the best little girl, take a little heart out.

Take no other prize, alright, but she hasn't any feelings.

You'll be a me.

Hello and welcome to episode 906 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from

baseball perspectives presented by our Patreon supporters and the play index at

baseballreference.com. I am Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Samuel or baseball

perspectives. Hello.

Great. I'm going to do a little bit of a grab bag episode again today.

Is there anything that you want to banter about?

No, I had something and I've forgotten that it might pop up.

Okay, well, did you follow the tweets about the Diamondbacks visitors bench?

Yeah, well, I didn't follow the tweets. I watched the Dodgers broadcast.

I was watching the Dodgers broadcast when they mentioned it and I was skeptical.

Well, so was I when I heard it because it sounds like such an insignificant bit of

gamesmanship. It's just frivolous gamesmanship. But John Weissman, who's the

Dodgers insider blogger, tweeted that according to Alana Rizzo, who is the Dodgers

sideline reporter or crowd reporter, the Chase field visitors bench is designed

differently from the home bench and that Clayton Kirschah refuses to sit on it

because of the discomfort. And Alana then tweeted that it makes your legs

fall asleep, no joke. And someone asked her was that the intention of the bench

and she said, yes, to make opposing players as uncomfortable as possible.

Yep. And then Julia Morales, who is she does the Alana Rizzo job for the

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