Don't give the ghost up just like your face.

Don't give the ghost up just like your face.

Don't give the ghost up just like your face.

You should have shown up now.

You're on the side of the back.

Hello and welcome to episode 1655 with Effectively Wild, a fancraft spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fancrafts and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ring or Ben How are you?

I've lost my bearings because the minor leagues have no names now.

My leagues don't have names anymore.

They may have names again in the future, but currently they have no names other than just AAA East, AAA West,

AAA Central. It's just the level and then where they are geographically because the agreement was finalized the 120 teams.

They've now signed the contracts that they were offered, quote unquote, offered.

All of that is sort of cemented now the new structure of the minor leagues.

And as part of that, at least at present, the old names have been stripped away, although JJ Cooper, who came on not long ago to tell us about how all of this will work,

has tweeted that these are probably placeholders and that there will be some sort of branding for these league names to come.

Yeah, I fear that the camping world presents AAA baseball.

And I guess like that will be disorienting not only because we have names that were league names that we've been accustomed to for such a long time,

and that have such a rich history in baseball, but because it's going to take at least two years for all of us to get our heads around,

who's at what level now and who's affiliated with which major league organizations.

And so I just imagine that I will feel very confused for the foreseeable future.

And I don't know that East or West or AAA East really helps to ground you in who is naturally in that grouping any better than the do-son.

Power West or whatever they're going to call it, but it is tremendously disorienting, which is hardly a surprise given the nature of the exercise,

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