You used to say I had what it takes

I think I did if you meant too little too late

And by the looks that I'm getting

I'll make some big mistakes

But I thought you said I was great

Hello and welcome to episode 1745

and effectively wild

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I'm Meg Raleigh of Fancrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the

Ringer. But how are you?

All right ready for the weekend how are you?

I too am ready for the weekend

Sure a lot of our listeners that share

We will use you into it today

We'll be talking a little later to Rob Mainz from baseball perspective

About his recent work looking into the state of the starting picture in major league

baseball as well as competitive balance

But before that we wanted to introduce you to a couple new major leakers

And also should we talk briefly about the blue chase because

They have suddenly seized the spotlight

And it seems like just a few weeks ago or even less than that

That we were talking about another AL East team that had seemingly salvaged its season

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