Why is this happening to you? You're not a child.

Why is this happening to you? I'll just show you my mind.

It's great for you when you are fast asleep.

You are dreaming, you are sleeping.

You are stuck to the sheet.

Hello and welcome to episode 1412 of Effectively Wild

a Fan Graphs podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rallye of Fan Graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer Ben.

How are you? I'm doing well. I'm happy that you are awake and

recovered enough to talk to me today. You had a busy Wednesday.

My brain is pudding. My brain feels like pudding.

Yeah, it ended up, you know, we should have known.

We just should have known that after a month of sitting around saying,

hey, it seems like we're not going to have a lot of deadline activity that every team in

baseball was like one of it. Yeah. Well, some people apparently think that

there wasn't enough activity and we're going to talk about that a little later in the

episode. But if there had been any more, I don't know how you and Dylan and Rachel

would have made it through the day because I don't know how you put up as much

content as you did in a very short time. That was that must have been a record day

for Fan Graphs just in terms of posting stuff.

Yeah, it was, I think that it was. I think Appleman has confirmed that that was a record

number of posts. Yeah, we could not have done it without Dylan and Rachel's

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