They say, wait, don't come, I ain't at close.

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When you'll eat, get your band underneath.

Hello and welcome to episode 1557 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fandgrass

presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined as usual by Meg Raleigh of Fandgrass.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

And we have a couple of pals on the show with us today because we wanted to do a bonus episode,

extra episode this week about how we all plan to cover this season,

if the season does in fact happen and how it will change our jobs and particularly a couple of people

who are out and about more than I am and more than Meg is as we cover baseball in our way

and are at the ballpark and are talking to players all the time.

So we are joined by James Feigen, who covers the White Sox for the Athletic Killow James.

And we have the honor of welcoming on my parent, who is a host for MLB Network Radio

and also does pregame and postgame for the Diamondbacks and also some play by play.

Hello, Mike.

Hi, it is great to be with so many great friends and James.

So first I guess we wanted to start out by talking about what you know to this point about the logistics

of how this will affect your job because my job I've been pretty fortunate.

My job is to sit at home most of the time and sometimes call people on the phone

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