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Oh won't you give my heart a break and just let me go

Oh, oh, baby let me go

Hello and welcome to episode 1463 and effectively wild

Graphs baseball podcasts brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rally of

Band Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

I am doing alright happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving. And happy Thanksgiving to everyone

listening. We are pre-recording so we are inauthentically wishing each other happy

Thanksgiving a few days before Thanksgiving. I guess it's not inauthentic. I

authentically wishing you a happy Thanksgiving just prior to Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I still hope you have a good time. Thank you. You too. So because we'll be doing stuff

and traveling and seeing family and a lot of you will be also and we'll have

travel and we'll need things to plug into your ears or put on the car stereo.

We are doing this a little bit early and most of the episode will be a conversation with

fan graphs Jay Chaffee about the Hall of Fame. We like to talk to Jay just about every year

because he is constantly breaking down Hall of Fame stuff around this time of year.

So we'll get into all of that and unfortunately you had some urgent

managing editor business come up right before that conversation. So it's just me and Jay.

But before we bring him on, one thing I wanted to bring up. So we're hoping to have Jeff

on at some point this off season subject to approval. He has to get the go ahead to do that. But

hoping he will and one thing that I was thinking maybe we could do with him was talk about

this year's Hall of Fame artifacts, the things that were saved from the 2019 season and sent to

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