You never had to worth before, never would've been.

Don't step away to know, never leave me.

Together you'll see this thing like you could.

I will know when we belong.

Hello and welcome to episode 1581 of Effectively Wild a Fangirl Spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangirls and I joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Okay, how are you?

I'm okay.

That's hot.

Oh yeah, that's good.

It's hotter here, but not uncomfortably so.

That's our weather banter for today.

We've got a couple of guests lined up today.

First we will be talking to Ginny Surle and editor at baseball prospectus who wrote about Tom Brennan's comments this week.

Of course, Brennan, the red broadcaster, made a homophobic slur that was caught on the air on a hot mic.

And he has since been removed from the air from multiple broadcasting jobs that he holds.

There's been a larger conversation that has accompanied those comments.

So we will talk to Ginny who wrote about it for BP.

And then we will talk to Craig Edwards of Fangrass who steered the Fangrass Trade Value Series this week.

And we talked to him about how weird it is to try to figure out what trade value means in 2020 and how he thinks teams should behave or will behave at the trade deadline, which is approaching very quickly.

So we'll get into all of that very soon.

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