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00:00Very clearly, something is happening where we're seeing a lot fewer balls leave the park
00:09this year.
00:10Yeah.
00:11I mean, look, they, they killed the ball again.
00:13We've seen them do this.
00:14We we've, uh, I mean, we've had kind of every iteration of this really in, in the last five
00:19years we've seen the super juiced ball.
00:21So that was 2019.
00:23That was what, uh, what we in the business, uh, called the super fun, happy ball era.
00:28That was, you know, uh, Cody Bellinger hits 50 home runs, uh, you know, Gary Sanchez,
00:33Glaber Torres, I think hit 42, uh, that season, if, if memory serves, like, like just like
00:38the most ridiculous list of guys.
00:40Then we went the other way.
00:42We had the debt, we had like a super dead ball year, uh, in, in 2021.
00:47Then we had, uh, you know, that, that great study that they published on the athletic
00:52about Aaron judge's home run year, where they, they had three different balls that they use.
00:56So they had a juicier ball, a very dead ball.
00:59And then what they called the Goldilocks ball.
01:02Uh, I mean, that's kind of neither here nor there, but the conclusion of that article
01:06was major league baseball was giving the Goldilocks ball to judge for all of, uh, for
01:10all the Yankees home games.
01:12But yeah, I think it's pretty clear they dead in the ball.
01:14I don't know what is behind that decision.
01:16Uh, maybe they think it, maybe they think it helps speed games up because it is going
01:20to have more balls in play.
01:22That would be, that would probably be my thought.
01:24I personally would say that I don't love it, but there's no doubt about it.
01:30The dead ball has helped my Kansas city Royals because they would not be able to
01:33hang in a year where everyone was hitting home runs.
01:36So it, for, for my selfish purposes, it actually has been kind of nice.