Yo, we take a story real quick about one of our partners about this cat I know

One of my homeboys and we just gonna call him Junior

Yeah, yeah, okay meanwhile, Junior's doing this thing

And living up to his full potential but the haters

And I don't even wanna call him that cause it worse than that

But he's becoming a victim of the monster, you know

This is the machine that revolve in door

This is them that's God versus them that can't get

And ain't gonna never get had a good

Hello and welcome to episode 1507 of Effectively Wild

The Fan Graph Space Ball Podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Meg Rally of Fan Graphs and I joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ring

Our Ben How are you?

I'm doing alright, how are you?

I'm doing well, there's banging and construction land next to my house

Can't escape the various schemes, there are no banging scheme replaced for me

You pick what is banging everywhere we look and listen

Something like that, yeah

So we've got a season preview pod lined up today

I think this is our eighth is this our eighth

We're right around the halfway point of the series

Which every season reminds me of how many teams there are

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