My control starts today, unless you want to learn a hard way to get scored way.

This is not a game. We do not play us, we do not play. My control starts today.

Unless you want to learn a hard way to get scored way. This is not a game.

We do not play us, we do not play.

Hello and welcome to episode 1492 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast for

band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Evan Nmberg of the Ringer

joined by Samuiler of ESPN LoSan. Hello, so there are some news reported by your ESPN colleague,

Pedro Gomez. That's something that we probably talked about hundreds of episodes ago.

I think we've probably answered a listener email about it at some point, but apparently,

according to Pedro, this coming season MLB empires will be mic'd up, or at least the crew chiefs

will be mic'd up, and they will tell the fans in the ballpark, and everyone watching or listening

at home if reviewed calls are upheld or overturned, and if they need to explain why that happened,

or if there's some rule that they need to elucidate, they will do that live, which is something we

talked about whether that was a good idea or not, and I don't remember what we said, but I think it's

good. How could we not think it was a good idea? It does feel a little clunky that the best

form of communication to the crowd would be the umpire speaking into a microphone. It feels like

in this day and age, we ought to have, I don't know, I don't even know what it would be, but there

ought to be some kind of sleeker way of communicating things, like everybody just gets a text message

a juller or something like that, but we're stuck with what we've got, and what we've got is a need

to communicate what's happening into the fans, it's just crazy that you wouldn't tell the fans,

even if it weren't four and a half minutes of delay and inactivity where people are wondering

what's going on, even if all of this was resolved in one second, you would still have to tell the

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