Can I take your picture?

Wow, Virginia, this is how it's done.

You take the money, the time's mine.

Hello and welcome to episode 1143 of Effectively Wild.

Today's baseball podcast from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan.

Fangrass. Hello.

Hi.

We're going to try to do a podcast about a sport that is completely dormant these days as we did on Monday.

So we're doing emails, of course,

relying on listeners to get us through this very, very slow spot in the calendar.

But we have a bunch of banter to get to.

I think you have maybe more banter than I do.

So you want to start with yours.

Let's see how much overlap there is.

So I think I have three or four things.

Let's see.

So I mean, what are the two things people are talking about right now to show you Otani and John Carlos Stanton.

So let's talk about some Stanton and Otani.

One, we have the Marlins who apparently told John Carlos Stanton that if he doesn't accept trade, they will trade everyone else.

Those are not exactly their words, but those are basically their words.

I think that was something they expressed in a meeting.

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