Hello and welcome to episode 1349 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fed Graphs presented

by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lembert of the Ringer joined by Samuel R. of the SPN

fellow Sam. Hey Ben, Norea. I am doing well and one of the Patreon supporters who

presents us as I always say is joining us today. Anthony Chef is one of the very

few Patreon supporters in our Mike Trout dear of membership, the highest tier of

Patreon support, which entitles people to join us on an email episode and this

is that email episode for it that he's so Anthony welcome.

Thanks Ben. Yes, it's a real pleasure. Yeah, for us too. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

You were just telling us before we started recording that you are a Cubs fan who is

embedded in Boston and lives near Fenway Park, which is an interesting situation,

but anything else about what you do or who you are or how you found us, let us know.

Sure, yeah, so I am Cubs fan. I actually grew up in Atlanta in the 90s, but I

at home schooled so I was home a lot and we had WGN so we were always watching Cubs

Day Games and they had some some fun teams in the late 90s with Sammy Sosa and

Kerrywood and all those guys. Yeah, that's funny because sometimes you'll hear

people say that they're fans of the Cubs because they're on national broadcast,

but you also hear that about fans of the Braves, right? Because they're on

TBS and the Super Station and anyone can watch them and so you could have

just become a Braves fan, right? Why didn't you? Yeah, so when I was a kid I was

sort of like a hipster sports fan. I always wanted to pick other teams. So

everyone in my extended family, my dad who listens to this podcast, I'm sure

he'll notice. They all went to Georgia Tech, so I just decided I was going to

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