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Hello and welcome to episode 1817 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented

by our Patreon supporters. I am Dunn and Berg of the Ringer joined us always by Meg Rally

of Fangrass. Hello Meg. Hello. The good news, the only good news is that that guy who's

been posting a new drawing of Mike Trout each day of the MLB Lockout can keep doing that

or maybe he's sick of that by now so I don't know if that's good news for him or not.

Good news for us. The bad news is that we won't be seeing the real Mike Trout anytime soon

because the lockout continues. No deal was reached by the MLB imposed Monday deadline.

Deadlines can move and now MLB has officially cancelled the first two series of the regular

season and decreed that those games won't be made up, though that may be subject to

bargaining. As we record on Tuesday evening, the next talks have yet to be scheduled and

so to lament and lambast and bimmon these developments or non-developments, we are joined

by our friends and my colleagues from the Ringer MLB show in the Ringer at large, Michael

Bauman and Zach Kram. Guys, we needed to do a crossover episode because otherwise the

way things are going, I'm not sure when or if we would ever get to talk again.

Well, not only that, you would have found yourself in the awkward position of having only

management people on this podcast and so you needed Zach and me to speak for the people

and in that capacity, I'm happy to oblige. Yeah, we've got equal representation here.

Yeah, when you started by saying there's one good thing about this podcast episode. I

thought you were going to introduce us then, but I guess not.

So you're two good things about the podcast episode. So he had to get the low hanging

bread out of the way and then you could be the main event. But we do have two genuine

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