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Good morning and welcome to episode 958 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast and Baseball

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I'm Sam Miller, along with Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, Hello Ben.

Hello.

So you wrote about the way that you found out about Jose Fernandez and I had a very similar

experience and looking at your mentions, it looks like a lot of us had that experience

where on Sunday morning we got a message, the message was vague and you had to process

what it could be.

The message I got was, geez Jose Fernandez, I was in church, I couldn't look anything

up and I thought to myself as I sat there that either he had nine strikeouts through three

innings or he needed a second Tommy John or the unthinkable.

And as I sat there, I just was in dread and it was a terrible day for everybody because

either you found out about it in one second or you had it, you had this feeling of uncertainty

while you waited to find out the news and it turned out to be the worst thing that really

could happen in baseball.

And so we're going to talk about Jose Fernandez but I mean really there's just been so much

amazing writing about him, about his career, about his personality, about the way he played,

the way he lived and the way we all felt, watching him do those two things.

And there's not much left for us to say about what an amazing gift he was to baseball.

And so I don't think we'll focus on that.

I think that there's so much good writing that I would just encourage everybody to really

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