I remember about you, the song you're leaving

You and I, we are so safe

How the prayers call to the song you're leaving

You can't hear nothing, you say

I don't want to, I don't want you

I just need to sing, I need to sing

Hello and welcome to episode 1326 of Effectively Wild

A baseball podcast from Bancrafts presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringers joined by Jeff Sullivan of Bancrafts

Hello, you changed your avatar, please don't do that anymore

Yeah, it's like redesigning a website I guess when someone changes their avatar

It's sort of disturbing but I figured I was using this one with a neon green background that they asked us to use when the ringer started

But that was years ago and no one still uses that and they don't want us to still use that

So I had to get a new headshot for the book, the publisher made me so I figured I might as well use it

Yeah, I understand, it's just, you know, it's jarring I feel like I accidentally followed some new person

And I try not to follow anybody or maybe somebody unfamiliar has been retweeted into my timeline

It's like, oh, I don't want to read somebody else's baseball article so anyway, you know, I think I've already adjusted to it

But at first I didn't care for it

It's still the same me, it's just a slightly prettier photo

So we are going to answer some emails today, can you feign interest in the Hall of Fame for a few minutes?

Well, let's make a compromise before we get there can I at least point out that Williams Estadio played his first game as a mercenary in the show

In the championship for the card analysis a lot of them they won game one of the Venezuelan championship

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