Hello and welcome to episode 1329 by the effectively wild a baseball podcast from

Fandcrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Minberg of the Ringer joined not today by Jeff Sullivan of Fandcrafts who was

unavailable at this particular time but by co-host Meredith Espion's own similar.

Hello, welcome back.

Hello.

Ben, I would just like to note that normally when you turn on a podcast, you're listening

to a podcast and they start the episode and you know one guest introduces the or one

host introduces the other host or the guest host and says, hi, how are you?

And the other one says good and you think, well that's weird.

Didn't they just talk for 20 minutes beforehand?

And yes, they did.

But in this case, I had not said a word yet to Ben.

That was real podcast.

You said hi, I think when I said hi.

Well, I said hi, but you were already I thought that you were already muted when I said

hi.

So I logged on to this thing and I said hi or when you logged on, I said hi, but you have

a you you log on pre muted.

Yes.

And so then you didn't respond in any way.

And then 80 seconds later, you came on and said something like, okay, all right.

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