No less the winter sols, sometimes your mind breaks up

Bars full by the afternoon, then everybody's drunk

Sometimes I look down the road, far aside I'll never see

If you don't grab by yourself, you grab by me

You grab by me

You grab by me

Hello and welcome to episode 1640 of Effectively Wild

A baseball podcast from Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters

I am a member of the Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh

A Vangrass, hello Meg

Hello

So we've got a bunch to talk about today

We have a Hall of Fame related interview

So, hardly the most pressing moral or ethical quandary of this week in America

But in the baseball world, at least for a while, there was much more moral hand-dringing about the Hall of Fame

We talked about it last week, we talked about it with Jay Jaffee as well

But Ken Rosenthal released his ballot this week and he wrote

So many of my choices were people of questionable character, I called it my hold, my nose ballot

But the more I think about it, the sick to my stomach ballot would be a more accurate description

I voted out of obligation and ended up feeling like I did the wrong thing, not knowing what the right thing was

And he went on to say, I'm just frustrated, frustrated with the inconsistencies we cannot avoid

The false equivalencies we create, the rationalizations that require leaps and logic

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