Don't you deserander, the bother keeping scarred, the battle lines can blur ee, when you're worth it war,

to the horizon, for sun is in your eyes,

it's gone retry to captain, we parted worth so much,

to the land we now in then, I'm reminded that you could break a fight in then,

vanish from you, essential citizens are counting on you,

Hello and welcome to episode 1520 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by a Patreon supporters,

I'm Meg Raleigh a fangrass and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberger of the Ringr, Ben Hower You.

I'm unchanged from my time, which is about the best that I could ask for,

yeah man, yeah.

It's nice to talk to another human person.

Yeah, yeah, it is nice, that's something that I joke about,

but not really joke about during regular circumstances, is that much of my human interaction and speaking comes from podcasting,

which is something that Jeff always used to joke about too, because his wife didn't work from home and he did work from home,

and so he would never see a person during the day, and I rarely see a person too.

So if anything, my human interaction has increased with my wife working from home now, but that is the opposite of the case for most people.

Yeah, continues to just be a weird time and baseball is trying to plan for the long continuation of our weird time.

Exactly, yeah, and I guess that's what we're going to devote much of this episode to,

because the players association and the league reached a tentative agreement, as we speak,

I don't know if it's been officially ratified, but they have agreed to what would happen in a short and season,

even in what happens for service time and salary and various other considerations, including the amateur draft and international signing period and many very sweeping implications for amateurs and minor league players in the short term and in the long term future of the sport.

And so we're going to devote a whole segment to that and have Fingert's Eric Langenhigunan to break that down for us, because there are a lot of considerations there,

because the union essentially to get a deal kind of through the amateur players to the wolves, which is what tends to happen in these negotiations,

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