Give me back the beat!

Give me back the beat!

Give me back the only thing that makes my life complete!

If you come back to me, I'll be dancing in the street!

I'm Mr. Tune!

Give me back the old, that made me tap my feet!

But these two rocks is more asleep now that you've gone!

It's leaning on!

Give me back the beat!

Electoral!

Hello and welcome to episode 1235 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangross, presented by our 8PM supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, not joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangross.

Today, Jeff is sick.

He was losing his voice on our last episode, and he has now entirely lost his voice.

His immune system is weakened by working from home, and he was in contact with other human beings this weekend, and it did not go well for him.

So, he'll be back later in the week, but, fill in for Jeff, I am happy to be joined by Lindsay Ethler, who covers both the Metz and the Yankees for the Athletic.

Hey, Lindsay.

So, later in this episode, we're going to have a guest, we're going to talk to Jeff Hecklman, who is a former MLB PR guy.

He is going to tell us why it is or isn't MLB's fault that Mike Trout isn't more famous, which is a debate that we hear all the time that it's MLB's fault, that they're not doing a good job of marketing their stars.

Maybe, but it's debatable, and Jeff will tell us why.

But this is not terrible timing for Jeff to be sick if he had to get sick at some point, because I wanted to talk to you anyway, because I'm kind of fascinated by the career change that you have made this year.

And for people who don't know you, you were at Buzzfeed News, and then you were at Deadspin, and now you are at the Athletic, so you are basically a beat writer for two teams at the same time.

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