And I can go back, and I don't want to, so my mistakes.

It brought me to you.

Hello, and welcome to episode 1281 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from

Fangraths presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangraths. Hello. I'm sorry that you don't get to see

any more playoff baseball in person. Well, about that. I didn't actually see

game four of the ALDS in person. I did something to my neck. I don't know what it

was. It's one of those things where you hurt yourself and you don't feel it at

the time and then feel it later. So I must have done something at the gym and then I left

the gym and then pain started and pain got worse and pain is still bad.

Podcasting through pain, but I'm kind of walking around very stiffly like C3PO and

turning my entire body when I want to look at something instead of turning my head.

So I figured it wouldn't be the best time to be in the press box.

Yeah, so you were a late scratch for press row, but yeah, I did the, I did the same thing

last week also in the gym and I can tell you that neck injuries like back injuries or

those injuries where you don't necessarily think so much about them at the time until

shortly thereafter you realize that your neck and back are involved in pretty much every movement

that your body does and they engender next to no sympathy from anybody else.

You can't, you can't tell someone, I hurt my neck and then expect like a

I can tell you to wear your hug or something. It's just like no.

Well, that's the last thing you want. You don't want anyone to touch you.

That's okay, that's a fair point, but what do you say?

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