Hello and welcome to episode 1845 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fandgrass presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I am the member of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fandgrass, hello Meg.

Hello.

How are you?

Well, I didn't get ejected in the first sitting of a baseball game, so I'm doing better than

some.

Has anyone had to hold you back today?

As I said to you before we started recording, and I don't want to impune anybody's character,

but if there's anyone in baseball who might genuinely need to be restrained because he seems

very serious, it might be a medicine bum-carner.

He seems like he's committed to the bit.

Yeah, we didn't talk to Del Scott about that situation specifically.

Last time we didn't ask about Farn's substance inspections and we didn't ask about players

being held back, but he does mention in his book that often he thinks that's performative

right that when a player's like, oh, hold me back, I must be restrained by my teammates

here to just contain the force of my fury that usually it is purely for appearances and

that the player doesn't actually want to be released or if they were released that they

wouldn't actually do anything because they'd be suspended more B. They might hurt themselves,

maybe they're not actually that angry underneath the facade of it all, occasionally it will

break down and you'll see like real raw emotion and anger and like actual assault happen

on a baseball field, which is not so fun, but yes, it is true that if anyone means it,

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