Hello and welcome to episode 183 of Effectively Wild and the baseball podcast from

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass.

Hi, neither of us was all that invested in the All Star game.

I think because they let people other than Aaron Judge hit, which was really fan unfriendly.

So I don't know whether you have any points you want to bring up from the game, close game,

obviously, not sure it was a super entertaining game, although there were entertaining and

meaningful moments within it.

So yeah, I wasn't being too close to attention because you know, All Star game and whatnot,

but I know, I mean, what, there were the moments there was what the home run, I was like,

no, there was Nelson Cruz, I can picture with Joe West, which whatever.

Oh, fun little hostile game, Quirk.

I have some all-star game stuff for the stat segment, but one of the themes that I get,

I don't know, are there themes to the conversation about the All Star game, but people have

a sees-and-the opportunity to-

How do we fix it?

Yeah, actually, why is it?

Maybe we'll talk about that on Friday, but one of the things people have talked about is

this is seemingly an opportunity to rip on the Southern Florida slash Miami sports scene.

Again, people were making fun of the attendance the game was, technically a sell out, but

attendance started to thin out pretty quickly.

There's been a lot of the usual Twitter conversation about how it's embarrassing for the

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