I used your telephone to sneak inside your home.

My finest friend, my nigga, hey, Tom.

Hello and welcome to episode 1661 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast

of our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rally, a fan-graphed son. I'm joined as always by Ben

Limber of the Ring or Ben How are you?

Doing decently how are you?

You two are right.

We've got a couple team preview segments lined up for today. We're really running through

them. It seems like a lot before you start and you look up and see 15 full episodes and

30 teams ahead of you. But they go pretty quickly once you're in the middle of it. So we'll

be talking today to Jesse Dirty of the Washington Post about the Washington Nationals, followed

by Sahad of Sharma of the Athletic about the Chicago Cubs. Sort of a serendipitous pairing

here because the Nationals are kind of Cubs East these days. You got Dave Martinez, Jim

Hickey, Kyle Schwarber, John Lester, Jeremy Jeffress, Starwyn Castro, even. X Cubs everywhere

you look. So we will get to Jesse soon, but you had a brief bit of banter he wanted to

bring up first?

Yeah, I thought it would be good for us to just spend a little bit and we don't have to

blabber the point because it's been discussed sort of at length, other places and we touched

on it in our conversation with RJ about some of the other aspects of Kevin Mathers comments

that were yucky. But I thought it might be good for us to just spend a moment on the

service time component of this because I noticed in the Facebook group and I got some of

this in my chat this week and I've seen some of it on Twitter that there's this sense that

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