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Hello and welcome to episode 1633 of Effectively While a baseball podcast with

Bancras presented by our patrons, quarters, I am the member of the ringer

Bancra Lee of Bancras, hello Nick

Hello, tell me if this strikes you as curious at all

I was reading the tiktok that Jason Stark wrote about Dave Dombrowski's hiring by the Phillies

And in there he explained why Dombrowski went away from his commitment to work for the

Nashville committee that was trying to put a baseball team in that city

So here is what he wrote and he's talking about a conversation that Phillies owner John

Middleton had with Dombrowski, it was like the third call where they were trying to get

Dombrowski to come work for them

So Stark writes Dombrowski in Middleton wound up speaking for more than an hour

They'd known each other for years but they'd never had a conversation like this

Among the topics was this game changer

Dave Middleton said frankly, I don't think expansion is going to happen for a long time

Just the day before in one of his periodic conversations with the commissioner's office about the situation in Nashville

Dombrowski had heard a similar take, it got him thinking

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