But I couldn't resist when my fortune lies.

Now I'm buying a year rich if I keep through time.

When I keep on chipping and chipping away, there's a little more gold everyday.

All I got to do is just pull it right from the ground.

Every time I take a little piece I know I'm throwing a lie with you.

You'll be going sooner and later there's a whole thing that's coming down.

Hello and welcome to episode 1815 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast

from Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Memberg of The Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Fangrass.

Hello Meg.

Hello.

Well, it's been a dismaying week for many reasons, most of which have nothing to do with baseball,

nothing like a literal war to put a labor battle in sports in perspective.

So our thoughts are being pulled in many non-baseball directions,

which I'm sure is also the case for most of our listeners

and anyone hoping to turn to baseball to distract themselves

with the pastoral scenes of spring training is out of luck, thanks to the lockout.

So as we speak on Thursday afternoon, there hasn't been much progress in the CBA negotiations

as we draw closer to the owner imposed February 28th deadline to start the season as scheduled,

which we could take some time to Bermone,

but there may be just as much to Bermone next time we speak.

So we will table that for today, I think, and talk about the future,

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