Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket I, welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about.

Well the North have all changed since you hung around, but those dreams every made and they've turned around.

You would have thought they'd need you. You would have thought they'd need you.

Yeah, where would you go?

Hello, I'm Welcome to episode 1766 and Effective The Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I am joined today by a longtime friend of the show, Host of the Show, Jeff Sullivan.

Hello, how are you, friend?

I understand this is the first time Ben has had a taste of freedom from the podcast and he would have been so reluctant to ever take a break,

which I know because he potted on his wedding day, but now that he's actually done it, you might never get him back.

Well, I would perhaps submit that keeping a newborn alive who really is just in the most adorable, lovely way possible, completely useless friend.

Several months last year's is perhaps not entirely a break, but yeah, this is Ben's first prolonged absence from the pod in quite some time.

Yeah, I will be keen to see when he wants to return. I think it will be soon. My understanding is soon. Hopefully that's big enough for our listeners to not ask a lot of follow-up questions about an email, but soon.

I seem to recall when one of us and more likely me would go away on a trip for a couple of weeks, then he was urgent for us to record three episodes into day so that he wouldn't be off schedule.

So I'll be curious to see how that part of his brain functions at the at the other end of this.

Yeah, I mean, I would imagine that among new parents, he is probably one of the least sleep-addled, sleep-loss-addled rather, just because of how little he slept to begin with or at least for extended chunks.

But yeah, I don't know. I have been grateful that I think I had one week in the last month where I only recorded two episodes, and people were really nice about that.

And I appreciated their kindness because Ben and his wife had a baby, but I had a post-season, so really which of those is harder.

And we know the answer to that, it's the baby, but the post-season ranks, you know, among the times. I'm very tired. I told you before we started recording that I feel like I have maybe two remaining functional brain cells or at least two awake brain cells, but we have do more world series games, so hopefully that's enough.

Well, as you know, the discourses all about how the games are keeping people up until 12, 30 or one in the morning, not like a child, except that the child gets you up again at like five in the morning, which is the baseball games don't do.

I think that like we have to much like a baby is just going to be the theme of the episode, I guess.

You know, we have to.

We have to.

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