Hello and welcome to episode 17.28 of Effective Do-Wild, a fan-grafted baseball

podcast brought to you by Patreon supporters. I'm a girl, a fan-grafted and I'm joined

as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring of Ben How are you?

Oh, I'm alright. How are you?

I'm alright. I don't know what's going on in the world, but I'll do the hat I'm fine.

You've been doing a Twitter detox. How's that been for you?

It's been fine so far. I mean, it has been less than 24 hours.

I will say that it has made me realize how often I just reflexively navigate to Twitter

without any real, not in search of anything in particular, just as a thing that I do when

I've closed one tab and I'm preparing to open another one on my browser.

So in that respect, it's been illuminating. It's certainly been a less feisty 24 hours than

I typically experienced. So in that respect, it's been really nice. You know, it's like

I came down from the deadline and I felt relaxed, not anxious, watched at last. So right

a book. I was like, how this feels great. You know, it would ruin it Twitter. So I decided

to take a little break.

Yeah, that's nice. You had to be extremely on Twitter during the deadline. I guess it's

unfortunately for you. It's not really a choice about whether to be on it or not be on it

because you kind of have to be on it at least at certain times just as an assigning editor

as someone who has to be aware of breaking news. And obviously a lot of baseball news is

broken via Twitter. So it would be hard to walk away to do one of those celebrity moves

and announce that you are quitting Twitter and then inevitably return in a week or two

when you start craving attention. But you have not done that. You were just merely stepping

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