I'll sit in a mom, no rain to take up the foam,

never heard your voice, I was listening in.

You were talking in the hall, always made up what I heard it all.

Nothing I could do, just listening in.

Hello and welcome to episode 1627 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from Fangrass, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rallyh of Fangrass.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

I was struck by something I just saw in the Facebook group,

and one of our listeners was struck by something that he read in Buster Only's column

on Wednesday.

Listener Anthony flagged this for our Facebook group members. This is a phrase in Only's column,

which is about Cleveland and Francisco Indoor and Trade Rumors.

Only writes that by all accounts from sources around baseball, Cleveland is prepared to

listen aggressively, prepared to listen aggressively.

And this I think might be a new entry in the rumor-mongering lexicon.

I haven't done a Google search or looked for previous instances, but listening

aggressively is an interesting one.

I don't hear that one every day.

And in this case, it's prepared to listen aggressively, which sounds even less aggressive

to me.

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