And you make them long, and you make them tough,

but they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off.

I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day,

but tell me, why do the children play?

Hello and welcome to episode 1694 of Effectively Wild,

a fancraft baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rallye of Fancrafts, and I am joined as always by Ben Limberger, the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm a bad for you.

I'm pretty okay.

Well, when we started our previous two episodes this week by talking about the

pending Mariners' Prospect call-ups, so I guess we might as well finish off the week

by talking about the actual rivals.

So we saw the debuts of Jared Kellnick and Logan Gilbert on Thursday.

What were your one-game snap takes?

Oh, they're terrible.

Send them back to the miners.

This seems like a normal pair of Major League debuts.

I talked about this earlier in the week that we have this expectation now after seeing

a bunch of like super prospects come up that you're going to hallmark and you're very

first at that.

And I mean, I will say who knows what would have happened in Jared Kellnick's first Major

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