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Hello and welcome to episode 1332 of Effectively Wild, a baseball

podcast from band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am the

Liburk of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Bandbrax. Hello, hello, we have

some big baseball news today, but most of this episode will be devoted to an

interview that we are extremely excited about, so just to tell you about that

before we dive into the banter, all of you will remember if you were with us at

the time. Episode 1153, this was in December 2017. We had one of the greatest

guests in this podcast history on the show. Johnny O'Brien, former Major League

Air from the 1950s and we were charmed. Everyone was charmed by his stories and

his sense of humor and his incredible memory. And he's back. Johnny's back. Johnny

O'Brien, the sequel. We've been trying to arrange this for a while. We didn't just

want to talk to Johnny again. Well, we did, but we figured we could do even better

and bring on two O'Brien's instead of one. Johnny's grandson is Riley O'Brien, who

is a pretty good pitching prospect in the Tampa Bay race system. So Riley just

turned 24. Johnny recently turned 88. So this is an intergenerational, but

intra family discussion about how baseball has changed and hasn't changed and

Johnny is delightful as always. So if you missed Episode 1153, go back and

listen to it. It's still great and you may enjoy this one slightly more if you've

heard Johnny in the past, but you can also continue to listen and Johnny is still

just a charmer and a wonderful guy. So happy that we could have them both on.

Agreed. I know we have been wanting to do this for a number of months. I

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