But I was on my floor when I ran you out my door

I can't stop, I can't stop those flashing reds

The strongest love, the strongest love I ever had

Hello and welcome to episode 2019 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from VanGas

presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Leberg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of VanGrassello Jeff.

Hello, how are you?

We're doing another team preview podcast today and we're just going to get right into it.

These preview episodes are pretty long so we're not going to banter about anything beforehand.

Later in this episode we're going to be talking to Zach Buchanan of the Cincinnati Inquirer about yes, the Cincinnati Reds

long neglected team of Effectively Wild but first we are going to talk about the Boston Redsucks

and to tell us about the Redsucks who own the third best projected record in baseball according to

VanGrasse preliminary standings and the best record in the American League.

We have the esteemed Alex Speer of the Boston Globe who just spent seven hours on a runway heading to spring training

so that he could bring us all the latest tidings from Redsucks land. Hi Alex.

I'm giving you a slightly delayed tidings but hello, thank you for having me on.

Well, if not for you, how else would we hear about how Pablo Sandeval looks tomorrow and then the next day?

It's an it's an off to overlooked phenomenon of spring training of these last few seasons since he signed with the Redsucks

so I feel privileged to be able to offer the latest.

Have you upgraded your camera so that you can have the most viral sand of all image of spring?

It's a it might justify getting Snapchat. I don't know my my six year old was just digging Snapchat and it occurred to me that

there could be some sensationalism that's you know that's imparted some you know alternative picture

picture effects and so well we'll see what happens.

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