To make up when you're gonna take your way

On holiday, on holiday

Our problems time will have to solve them someday

On holiday, on holiday

Hello and welcome to episode 1223 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, and Ben Lippurg of the

Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrass for a special,

free-recorded holiday episode. So we don't know what has happened

in baseball in the past few days, which for us as we speak are still in the future.

So we have a couple interviews lined up here, but where in the world are you

as people are listening to this podcast presumably? Are you in the wilderness somewhere?

In Mexico City, the urban wilderness. Oh, okay. Are you hiking somewhere, climbing something?

Nope, just go on and take a trip to a city for the first time, maybe. Wow, it's a long weekend.

It's not like you food. No, it's not. So going to be a lot of walking and eating and sleeping and

third, volcano's around, but one of them is blowing up all the time. So going to try not to get

too close to that one. But there's just, there's snow everywhere. So we can't do the

the backpacking that we want to do this weekend. So we're just going to go take a nice quick flight.

But I have a question for you. Okay. So in this episode, we will be talking about the

Vegas Golden Knights and expansion hockey and expansion baseball. And something that occurred to me

that I hadn't thought before. So the last round of expansion we had was more than two decades ago,

when the devil raised and the diamond backs joined the major leagues. And as I'm reading through

this, this saber profile of the diamond backs ownership history, I'm reminded that they were

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