This kind of move on, trying to get going.

When as it had I had no way of knowing.

But under my feet baby, Grace is going to miss.

And no more, miss.

Time to get going.

Hello and welcome to episode 1,001 of Effectively Wild,

the baseball perspective slash about to be Fan Graphs podcast

presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer.

My incoming co-host Jeff Sullivan is lasing around in Chile on vacation.

So for the next five or six shows, I'm going to get various guest hosts to fill in.

And when I put out the request in the Facebook group and asked people who would make good guest hosts for these next couple weeks,

one of the first suggestions was Sam Miller, which okay, good suggestion.

Good joke guys.

I didn't do that one, but one of the next suggestions was Grant Brisbane.

And that request was very quickly seconded, thirded, fourth, fifth, and possibly sixth.

So here we are. Hi, Grant.

Hello. How are you doing? I'm doing well.

So you and I have been talking a lot about this podcast lately.

I mentioned last week that when I thought about replacing Sam, there were really only a couple of people

I considered or thought I would want to do it with or would be able to do it with in the same sort of way that I did it with Sam.

And literally the only other person I talked to about that other than Jeff was you.

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