Hey everyone, just a quick note before we get started today, I wanted to apologize in advance for some audio issues on my end in this episode.

Not sure exactly what happened, I was recording a different podcast on a different computer shortly before we started this one,

and I switched my mic over to my regular computer, and unbeknownst to me, some gremlins got in there,

and evidently did something to the sound, so that I sound somewhat more muffled and distorted than usual.

It seems there was some sort of interference, perhaps.

When I discovered this audio issue after the episode, I unplugged my mic and plugged it back in,

and that time-honored tech support recommendation worked.

So, I can't recall this happening before, I don't think it'll happen again, and it's listenable and intelligible,

and I've heard we're sounding podcasts, but we try to go easy on your ears around here,

so I just want it to warn you in advance, and I hope and think that you will still enjoy the episode if you usually do.

So I will be back with Meg sounding a little less like myself in just a second.

I'm the fan of my own opera, I perform all the parts, and I think of you, sweet heart.

I'm even the audience, and I can't help thinking we were going to have a circus in the bar.

Hello and welcome to episode 1750 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters,

I'm the growly of fan-grass, and I enjoyed as always by Ben Limberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm alright.

You?

I'm not as good as the cardinals, but I'm otherwise fine.

Yes, no one is.

Did we look?

Allow me first to say, I don't believe in ghosts.

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