It's going, it's going, it's going.

There's something in the secret place and now it's gone.

We're saying the way it goes, it happens, something's going wrong.

They look at me, I've been heard, and my friend is going on.

Hello and welcome to episode 17 of EV3 of Effective 3 Wild.

A fair raff baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, fan-grafts, and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

It's starved for baseball news.

Oh, no.

I guess you can say.

Yeah, I know mid-december is not always an active time,

but lockout-december hits different.

It's just crickets.

It's not even crickets.

It's like when you get used to the sound of crickets,

and then the crickets stop, and you realize that it's extremely quiet.

I feel like the person in the movie who says,

it's quiet, too quiet.

Even that background murmur of the offseason of just meaningless rumors and nonsense,

but something that comes across your trancem, we're getting none of that.

I mean, there's a little bit of news, and there are people writing mock articles

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