You think of the oldest time I would in me surprise

You think that I've been nothing new when I looked into your eyes

You think there ain't nothing about you that I ain't realized

But every time I see you, but every time I see you darling

But every time I see you, I fall in love all over again

Hello and welcome to episode 1197 of Effectively Wild, the fan graphs based on podcast,

brought to you by our Patrons, Borders and this time by opening day, which happened.

I'm Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs.

I joined as always by Ben Lemberg of the Ringer who has his other baseball podcast back

and it's going to be ready for baseball more often.

You've already teased it, you've ridden it by baseball often.

Lately, baseball's back. It's a good feeling.

Baseball's back, although I spent a lot of opening day writing about Starcraft

but I watched as much baseball as I could.

And man, there was a lot of baseball. That was really opening day.

I'm used to being eased into the season by like a Sunday night game or something

or I can kind of calibrate my, I don't know, excitement level.

I felt I'm sort of overly amped up.

I don't know if people can hear it in my voice, but as I was watching baseball yesterday

and things were happening and actual news was coming out and interesting plays and stats.

I just kept thinking, oh, got a banter about that one. Got a banter about that one.

So I feel like I need to settle down and remember it's a long season marathon, not a sprint, etc.

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