Welcome to my life tattoo.

We've been long times together being you.

I expect I'll regret you but the skin will walk and I won't get you.

You'll be there when I die.

That's all.

Hello and welcome to episode 1501 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rallye of Fan Gras back for another special Monday edition and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Rare.

Ben, how are you?

Hey, yeah, it's not even special anymore. You're just the Monday regular all of a sudden.

Yeah.

Monday Meg.

Yeah. Well, you're going on vacation, which is why we're recording on Monday, which is very nice and I'm happy for you because you had a rough last week with all the excellent prospect content that you and Eric Lungenhagen produced for Fan Gras, which everyone should go check out, but it took a toll on your sleep schedule.

Yes, it sure did and what we learned, as I've said before, is that all nighters in your thirties, bad idea, but yes, it is one of those things that is a lot of work.

And there is a lot less sleep than his ideal, but when you look at it and the outcome is what prospect week was, you're like, yeah, that feels that feels worth it.

So, yeah, people should go read all of the great work for prospect week, all of Eric's stuff. They should go look at Fantasy Friday, where we had a top 100 dynasty rankings and redraft rankings and all sorts of good jazz.

And then they should leave me alone for like 70s.

Yeah. I will not be bothering you to record any emergency podcast. So today we're doing a season preview pod and it's NL East themed.

So we will be talking to Grant O'Cali about the Atlanta Braves and Megan Montemiro about the Philadelphia Phillies, but a bit of banter before we get there.

And I guess everyone can expect what we are about to banter a pound. So I just got to say I am really looking forward to the season starting.

It's just that the season preview pods get me excited for the season, but also the complete wall to wall sign stealing scandal saturation has gotten me somewhat excited for the season.

Because I went to the baseball subreddit on Saturday and the top like 10 to 15 stories were all sign stealing related, which I get it.

It's a huge story. It's all newsworthy. Like there's no way around it. I mean, when Carl's Carey is talking about things the Astros did and then players like Chris Bryant and Cody Ballinger, other big stars are responding to what he said.

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