No, they're a part of me

They're only one thing

Who will be dead, there's one keeps me alive

So I'm step away, step away

In the tassion, I said only then can we go all the way

All the way

Hello and welcome to episode 1173 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs

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I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs

And usually this would be our middle of the week email episode this week it is not

You know how some weeks I'll say, man, there were a lot of good questions this week

We don't even have time to get to all of them

This was not one of those weeks

So I think the emails are out of material much as we and everyone else who is trying to produce baseball content right now is

So we're just going to skip the email show this week it happens to be Fan Graphs prospect week

So we're going to do a prospect pod, we're going to have the entire Fan Graphs prospect team on the show in a short while

But we've a bit of binter to get to before that

Okay, two things

One is something I'm pulling from a Bob Nightingale article which already I understand that's my bad

But I'm going to I'm going to read it anyway

This is a recent article from the USA today and it's an article where he's trying to place his eight best remaining free agents or whatnot

And there's the article for the most part is perfectly reasonable and Nightingale is a professional

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