T4 Texas, a T4 Tennessee, a T4 Texas, a T4 Tennessee.

I'm T4 Karma, that now made a way, rather me.

Hello and welcome to episode 1670 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph space ball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm a rally fan graph and I joined as always by Ben

Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Okay, how are you?

I'm doing okay.

Yeah.

Alright, we've got a Texas 2-step today. We've got the 2 Texas team previews. So later in

this episode, we will be talking to Levi Weaver of the Athletic about the Texas Rangers.

But first we'll be discussing the Astros with Chandler Roam. So we're getting there. We

are close to opening day. I think we've got four more preview pods after this one. So

maybe two next week and two the first half of the following week and then the end of

that week we'll have opening day.

There will be baseball. Ben, can I pull back the curtain on the podcast for a moment?

Sure.

So our listeners are probably unsurprised by this, but we have already recorded both of these

interviews.

Yes.

So we already know what happens in both of these interviews. And there is a moment and

I don't know if I'm overreacting to stuff or being overly sensitive. But where I

might have suggested I was happy that someone in Texas was taking the pandemic seriously

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