Arate, Criselle, Arate, Fawre, Arate, Multiply, Take it from me.

Hello and welcome to Episode 1148 of Effectively Wild, the baseball podcast from Fangras presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangras, a Florida man in Orlando, Florida

at the Winter meetings with no power cord, so we've got to talk fast before his battery dies.

Hello, when I sat down on the airplane in Portland, I was flying on the same plane as Dave

Cameron, my friend, and also boss, friend first, Ben Bus. And I was thinking, as I sat down like,

oh, what would, how would Dave react if I turned around and I was like, hey, I just realized

I forgot to pack my computer. And then I was thinking, and then I was thinking, I was like,

well, you know, actually I did forget to pack my power cord. So then we went to, we landed,

we went to Best Buy, and when we landed in Orlando to get a power adapter, and I bought one,

and it fits my computer, and it was sold as a power cord, a universal power cord, and I opened

the box, we got back to where we're staying, and there is no wall plug. So I am still currently

on my last legs. But anyway, what is the intended use of the universal power cord if it doesn't have

a power cord? Ben, I really couldn't tell you. I have no answer to that question.

Talk to the geek squad, I guess. Whenever you do the podcast intro, the hello and welcome,

I always want to just jump in and say hello right after you say hello, but I think that it might

throw you off, and I'm really afraid of making you mad at me on the air. No, it's good. You should

keep me on my toes a little bit. So obviously we are talking about the Giancarlo Stanton trade,

we're talking on Sunday night, and later in this episode, we are talking to a genuine real life

Marlon's fan, a Miami Marlon's fan, gonna ask him what it is like to be a Marlon's fan at this

point in time. Spoiler, it's not great, but he's gonna tell us about that. But obviously we have

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