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Hello and welcome to episode 1833 of Infected for Wild, the baseball podcast for fan

graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined us

always by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs Hello Meg. Hello and we are bringing in the closer

for the final division preview series of 2022. I am a bachelary of sports illustrated

is with us to discuss the NL East and the Hore You. I am good I thank you for having me.

This is a momentous day for all of us I think because it marks the end of positional power

rankings for Meg. She is finished ranking all the positions as I understand it and it

marks the end of our division preview series and it also marks the end of March Madness

for Emma. You've been covering that for the past few weeks so we have all gotten something

big behind us or we're about to when this episode is over and that means that baseball

is right around the corner and next time we talk on this podcast we will be probably

discussing actual major league baseball games which is something that's nice to contemplate

given how much had to happen for that to happen and how unlikely it seemed to happen at

certain points. So I'm in a good mood today. Yeah I mean I still have to write my positional

power ranking summary piece so if you want to figure out the exact wrong time for Michael

Confort out of sign it's anytime between now and tomorrow morning but barring that I

think that we are in good shape here and so yeah I'm excited to like have a season to talk

about. Won't it be nice to have a season? I think it will yeah Emma how does covering

March Madness compare to covering April baseball it's like the most intense consequential

tournament time and then mostly meaningless baseball or at least not meaningless in the

long run necessarily but hard to tell what the meaning is beyond just the happiness that

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