Hello and welcome to episode 706 of the Gakebox, your regularly scheduled podcast for the week of May 25th, 206. I'm your host Ryan Scott. With me is Ryan Higgin.

Hello. And I have one question for you, Ryan. What's up with the socks? Your baseball team is just like,

you're on, you're on like suicide watch here. You're You do nothing but complain about how bad they are, that they're worse than they've ever been in history. Is this me and Greg Ford in group chat that you have this information from? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, this is you, the two of you in our group chat oh yeah big socks fans both of you yeah yeah no

they're bad they fired their manager and they geek box alum greek box alum greg ford gave up on the red

socks in 20 after 2018 when they are after 2019 when they traded mokey bets to the dodgers is that

oh yeah he gave up on is that when somebody said like when somebody says they're quitting a game and then they come back the next day? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, to his credit, Tass says he has barely watched since... Oh, okay. Well. So, yeah. He's a fake fan then. One of the best players in the game. Yeah. Because they didn't want to mooky bets sounds like like a denizen of the mazile icely can'tina

mucky bets yeah they weren't willing to take that

it's like that mooky bet correct that's one of the guys that that told obi won off when he

was looking for a ship.

Yeah.

So, Ryan, you are a big fan of statistics in spreadsheets. Yeah.

Well, that was my next question was going to be, do those guys not get on base?

Because Brad Pitt has taught me, that's the one thing that matters.

So Moneyball being one of your favorite movies uh of all

time that gift where he's like yes on days i'm always putting that in our group chat uh because it's the

only thing i know this is the great debate uh in sports right now and uh baseball is definitely at the

forefront of this of of the nerds and the analysts versus the baseball people, right?

What do you mean by baseball people?

It's numbers versus look and feel, right?

It's the back-end analytics data versus the eyeball test.

Versus the vibes?

Yeah.

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