The first is the best and the best is the secrets.

The taste of the last is sour.

Hello and welcome to episode 1616 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graft spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of the Angrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ringr. Ben, how are you?

I'm doing pretty well. How are you?

I'm doing pretty well.

We've got some huge and heartening news today.

We haven't had a whole lot of that lately.

No.

We woke up to or at least became aware of the news Friday morning that the Marlins had hired Kim Ang as their general manager.

The first woman to be a general manager in the majors or for a men's team.

I guess in any of the major American sports and also the second GM of Asian descent in MLP.

This is huge news.

It's just a very exciting thing to how do I want to put this.

It is very easy to know that a thing is literally possible that there are many, many qualified women who work in baseball, perhaps none as qualified as Kim in terms of her longevity in the sport.

She's occupied both on the team side and with the league.

The sort of resolve and resiliency of her interest in being a general manager.

It is one thing to know that it is literally possible for a woman to be the general manager of a major league baseball team.

It is quite another to see it literally happen.

And to know that that barrier has been broken.

To know that a woman is going to sit in that seat as you mentioned in Asian American woman.

Someone who has had to deal with the dueling challenges of being a woman in this industry and a person of color in this industry and having to navigate that and being so qualified for so long.

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