I watched the plans coming in, felt my heart be big in, and I didn't let it stay.

Hello and welcome to episode 1720 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast for bandgrass, brought

to you by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lembert of the ringer joined by Meg Valley of

bandgrass. Meg, I understand Denver did not want to let you leave.

I love Denver, Ben. It's a cool city. My family in Colorado had a lovely trip, got to see friends

in person, and you know, pinch them. I didn't do that. I don't pinch people that's rude, but you know,

they enjoy their company in person for the first time in quite a while. But then I wanted to go

home because I was tired and that Denver airport was like, no, you live here now. So my understanding

is that the airport lost power. I mean, I witnessed that. I saw the power kind of fritz in and out

while I was there, which was strange because you'd think that of all the places that really don't

ever lose power that the airport would be high on the list. Yeah, you'd think you'd want a generator

or some sort of redundant system set up at an airport. Well, and the speed with which the power came

back on made me think that actually all of those systems worked exactly the way they were supposed to,

right? That's good. But it did cause some issues and then the plane coming to Denver to take me

back to Phoenix was I think on the tarmac for like two hours. And then by the time it arrived,

you know, there are rules about how long a flight crew can be active for safety, right? You don't

want, you don't want sleepy pilots. That'd be bad. Right. So that crew couldn't fly. Yeah.

Again, for everyone's benefit. And then there was another crew that was supposed to come, but they

got delayed. So they're waiting on a crew from Philadelphia. So anyway, I was supposed to be home

by like six p.m. last night. And the actual time I got home was close to one a.m. So that seems

like a long time for a flight that's like an hour and 20 minutes. Yeah, I think it only takes

12 hours or so to drive from Denver to Phoenix. You probably could have made it. It's just about

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