And I got so much more to say, but I don't want to talk to myself though.

I'm not a lever, I'm a stale.

Yeah, you know that I'm a team player.

This world, we could take it.

Yeah, we could take it.

Hello and welcome to episode 131 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Bangress.

I've been the berg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of ThinkRefs.

Hello.

Doing two more team previews today.

So we're going to talk later in the episode to Jen McRamos,

Stompers Assistant GM and Rocky's expert about the Rockies.

But before that, we're going to talk to Meg Rally of baseball perspectives about the Mariners.

And even before that, we're just going to banter briefly.

So this will start off with Rocky's related banter.

And this concerns Ian Desmond, who had a injury and bad news and a hand fracture.

And we'll talk about that in the Rockies preview.

But this was before he was hit by a rookie Davis pitch and injured by it.

This is from John Hamons story about teams that could surprise last year.

And here's the lead.

First, it has the date line or whatever you call it when it says where a city says where the article was written for no word.

And for no real reason.

Scott Stale, Arizona, when new Rockies manager, Bud Black was introduced to new Rockies first basement, Ian Desmond.

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