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Hello and welcome to episode 1523, effectively wild,

a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of fan-graphs, and I am joined as always by Ben Lemberg of the Writer, Ben Hower Meo.

I am doing well! How are you and how is fan-graphs doing?

How has the response been to the public plea earlier this week?

Is fan-graphs saved at least for now?

There have been responses really incredible.

We've been quite moved by people's willingness to help

and by memberships and their eagerness to help beyond buying memberships

and the delight that they seem to be having at enjoying the site at free,

which is great. I'm glad that people feel like they're getting something

out of signing up for memberships and helping us out.

So we're still going to keep asking, we're not out of the woods.

There's still no baseball, and as such, our traffic is still lower,

but the response has been really amazing,

and we just want to thank everyone for rallying, you know,

like any community, like any family,

sometimes the baseball internet community,

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