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Hello and welcome to episode 1768 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan graph, and I am joined once again by Ben Lindbergh of the Ring or Ben.

Welcome back.

Meg has the father of a daughter, and happy to be here with you today. I'll just preface all my sentences with that from now on.

Yeah, it's apparently a very relevant character trait. You know, I think Ben, I had a great deal of respect and also affection for you as a person and a colleague, a friend.

But nothing makes you truly appreciate just how much work someone else does to make your life easy with them going on maternity leave for a month.

Thank you for being back, and thank you for doing all that you do for the pod that I probably did not express sufficient gratitude for before.

Well, you made my life easier and my daughter Sloan's life easier for the past five weeks or so as well.

Thank you very much for all that you did. It was wonderful to have the podcast listen to just as a member of the public, and you did a great job.

And I'm grateful that you kept it going during I know you're busiest and toughest month of the year.

So thank you and the apologies again for my family planning or lack thereof.

It was my great pleasure. I only regret that I use the welcome back coder theme already this week to start the episode with Jeff.

Yes, I really used it this one, but you'll have to come up with your own musical and you're leads from now on. So good luck with that.

Thanks to you and thanks to Dylan for this production assistance. Absolutely. I am back parenting complete mission accomplished Sloan is self sufficient. So I'm sure she can take it from here.

Actually, I'm being told apparently I have to be a father for the rest of my life.

Yeah.

So I have to keep doing that, but we'll also do the podcast now still on leave at my day job at the ringer, but wanted to be back here and not have to force you to get an endless string of guest cohosts.

So it's been an interesting five weeks for both of us, I think. We're all still alive over here and functioning fairly well, I guess. Just based solely on the first five weeks, I wouldn't give parenthood the greatest reviews.

I understand that it gets a bit better from here, but it's been put everyone's alive and fairly happy and healthy. So things are going okay.

That's good. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I mean, like we've talked it at various points. It's really remarkable that we survive as a species.

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