Hey everyone, this has been...

This is Meg.

And before we start today's episode, we wanted to do a quick PSA about Patreon

and about the listener support that makes this podcast possible.

We tend not to do the hard sell around here.

We rarely do any sort of sell, actually.

But we should probably remind people every now and then why we are listener supported

and what listeners can get in return for their support other than, of course,

the pleasure of continuing to listen to us on this podcast.

But at the beginning of every episode, we say that this episode is presented by our Patreon

supporters.

And we really mean that because we would not be able to continue to do the show, the way that we do it,

without that listener support in just to recap why the podcast is not part of my day job at the

ringer, obviously.

And I am not on staff at fan graphs, so I'm not paid by fan graphs to do the podcast.

I am paid by listeners through Patreon.

And you, of course, are paid through fan graphs, but not explicitly for the podcast.

I guess it's technically kind of part of your job, but it's not really part of the job that you

were hired to do initially.

And you have a full time job that has nothing to do with the podcast.

So you have to make sure that the site keeps running and that there are posts and such.

So the podcast is sort of an extra on top of that.

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