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Hello and welcome to episode 1154.

I'm effectively wild at baseball podcasts from Vangrath's

resented by heart Patreon supporters.

I am Benlundberg of the ringer, not joined, as I usually am by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrath's

who is on vacation as I hope many of you are.

I also hope you're all having happy holidays.

It's a good time to be a person, a bad time to be a podcast host.

There is absolutely nothing happening in baseball right now.

Jeff is very smart to schedule his vacations at this time, but the podcast must go on,

and it really has come a long way since a year ago at this time when Jeff was on vacation,

I believe, in the same place he is visiting now.

That was during the interregnum, the change in co-hosts from Sam Miller to Jeff.

There's a lot of uncertainty.

We were switching sites, switching co-hosts after years and hundreds and hundreds of episodes

with Sam.

No one knew for sure that this podcast would retain the appeal that it had had before,

and fortunately I think it has.

Most of you who are with us then are still with us.

Many of you have joined us in the last year.

It's been very gratifying, so I'm in a much more sanguine state of mind about the podcast

during this late December dead period than I was at the same time last year.

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