You painted your sneakers, you talked to yourself, you won't eat with me,

because you cared for your health, well he broke me and my wife,

and it didn't rhyme, you're not as weird as you act all the time,

now you're not as weird as you act all the time.

Hello and welcome to episode 1292 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast for band graphs presented by our H.J.S. supporters,

I am Ben Mnberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fair Graphs.

Hello, hello, so last week guys said that when we get to the offseason

we start doing these winter episodes, things can get a little weird,

and we're not waiting long to get to the weird stuff,

the off the beaten baseball path stuff.

Today we have a few interviews lined up, the second one will be with

an effectively wild listener named Chris Rankin, who has tattooed two baseball stats on his wrist,

he has tattooed Chris Davis's 247 batting averages on his wrist,

as well as Matt Chapman's defensive run saved total.

We will ask him why he did this and what the significance of these numbers is to him.

This is one of my favorite listener interviews I think we have done,

but before we get to Chris we will also be talking about a stratomatic league

that goes back 40 years that has been in operation almost continuously since 1979

and that just started its 40th year of operation this past weekend,

so we will be bringing on the husband and wife team behind that league,

Arnie Polynzer and Robin Perlo to talk about its history.

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