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Hello and welcome to episode 1439 of Effectively Wild, a fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Migralia Fagrass and I am joined as always by Ben Lemberg of the Ringer Ben How are you?

I am doing alright even though we're doing a rare Saturday morning conversation today

Got a Bob and weave with postseason baseball

Yeah those four game days don't weave a lot of rooms for podcasting or anything else

Really?

One of those days where you enjoy very much that there's so much baseball and also light to yourself about how much of the day you spend sitting

It's just okay, just gotta go with it

Yeah it's tough to keep track of it all especially when certain games overlap

But you kind of think in some part of your mind you're a few weeks away from no baseball

And so you're trying to savor the almost too much baseball you wish that you could kind of ration it out somehow

But you can't so there's just a ton of baseball and it makes it tough to time these podcasts because inevitably when the division series are still going on

When there are still eight teams active whenever we record there will be something that happens after we record

But before you hear it that's just kind of an unavoidable thing early in the playoffs

So we'll try to catch up on things and inevitably fall behind

Yeah I mean although I will say that like if the Yankees and Twins game for me yesterday is any indication

Maybe they'll just play one long game and let us do a little bit of catch up my goodness

So long, so about that yeah

So I don't know if there's an order you want to go in or anything you want to say before we just dive into games and series and getting up to speed on everything

Not especially well I guess I will say and I'm sure this will come up as we chat through them

We often have nifty tools at fan graphs and one of our nifty playoffs specific tools

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