Hey everyone, just a quick note to say that we recorded this episode on Wednesday evening.

I'm posting it early Thursday morning, and in the short interim between those times,

there was another Nohitter. This time it was the Yankees Cori Klubber Nohitting the Rangers,

who had already been Nohit once this season by the Padre's Joe Musgrove. So just be aware that

this was recorded prior to the sixth Nohitter of this season. Seven, if you count Madison

Bumgarner's Seven in a Game, one of our topics on this episode is Nohitter Overload, prompted by

Spencer Turnbull of the Tigers Nohitter on Tuesday, so it's safe to say that we are suffering from

slightly more Nohitter fatigue than we were when we spoke, and all of the trends that you'll hear us

talk about are even more apparent now. All right, on with the episode, which I hope you will hear

before we have yet another Nohitter.

Hello and welcome to episode 1696 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast from Bambraffs presented

by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Mnberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Bambraffs.

Hello Meg. Hello. Happy Otani Start Day. Oh boy. I was just realizing I kind of

border my days around Otani now, at least on the days that he pitches. Like, I look ahead,

and I think, okay, here's when Otani is pitching, here's what I have to do before then, how will I

rearrange my schedule so that I am available to plot myself on the couch and watch Otani at the

appointed time. Like, I knew, all right, I've got to do a podcast today, I have this phone call,

I've got to send some emails, I've got to go to the gym, normally I might go to the gym at that

time when he's pitching, but I can't do that because he's pitching today, so I've got to switch

things around. So he has literally become appointment viewing for me, and it's not just for me,

it is my close family, my wife is sort of the same way now, which I guess she's kind of picked it

up from me, but a few weeks ago, she had to have surgery, it wasn't a super serious surgery, it was

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