Every couple years Ben goes on vacation and I sing an intro improvisation.

It's effectively wild.

Good morning and welcome to episode 918 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast.

From baseball perspective, brought to you by our Patreon supporters and by the Playindex at baseballreference.com.

I'm Sam Miller. Ben is not here today. We are joined by a very full house, however.

We have co-hosting with me Craig Goldstein. Hello Craig.

Hi.

We also have George Bissill is doing the recording he might hop in.

George, feel free to hop in if you want to.

Feel free to not hop in if you don't want to.

Feel free to respond to this if you want to.

What's up Sam?

And our guests are Kate Morrison and Russell Carlton, who are here to talk about their

four part barn burner that ran a little bit more than one week ago on baseball perspective.

That took an extremely analytical and contextual look at the challenges of getting hired

by a major league baseball front office and the complications for the sport that those

challenges introduce. So Kate and Russell, hello and welcome.

Hello.

So I wanted to ask first of all, what was the question that kicked this off?

Because I don't know if you had planned it as a four part series originally.

I don't know if you had a list of 100 questions that you wanted to answer or if it just ended

up being that way because you were g-chatting one day and some small questions spied into

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