This is the dawn, the break of day, after the midnight party.

These ringing eaves have waited ye to hear the bells of fire.

Hello and welcome to episode 1323 of Effectively Wild in a Baseball Podcast from

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

Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of band graphs. Hello. We will be talking for most

of this episode to someone Kim from baseball perspective. He's gonna tell us

about the KBO, Korea baseball organization, specifically about how it has found

out how to be popular and how to attract young fans, which seems to be something that

midrally baseball is struggling with. So that is an enlightening conversation we'll talk about

their crowd experience, why it seems to be so much more fun to actually go to a KBO game that it

is to go to an MLP game these days and affordable as well. But before we do, there's not a whole lot

that we have to talk about. I guess the most prominent move that has been made since we last spoke

is Adam out of you know, going to the Yankees for three years and 27 million. So Yankees

had a good bullpen. Now they have reconstructed a super bullpen I guess. Yeah and it's fun. It's

simultaneously a lot of fun and also just kind of I don't know almost straight old hat at this

point because we've been talking about the Yankees in a super bullpen for years because they've

had a super bullpen for years. In fact, if you want to go back to the history because of the

presence of Mariana Rivera, the Yankees haven't had a below average bullpen to my knowledge and like,

I don't know, 25 years is hilarious how good they've been. But anyway, what they've done below

average team in that time either. Yeah, there's that too. But you figure a bullpen is the most

volatile part of a team, right? Turns out, nope, not always. Regardless. So the Yankees of

Science, that Britain and now they've signed Adam out of you know, which you you look at it and it's

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