Though the world is farce to sleep, though your pillow soft and deep, you're not sleepy

as you seem, stay awake, don't know then dream.

Hello and welcome to episode 1860 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented

by our Patreon supporters.

I am Penlinberg of the Ringer, not joined today by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs, she is still on

the road, she will be back on the next episode and so on that next episode we will cover all

the news that has happened in the past few days.

Another manager named Joe Get in the Boot, Tony LaRousa's latest confounding decision

and so much more.

We'll be recording that episode on Friday so that will come your way soon.

But both Meg and I were on the road this week, I went to LA for a few days for Ringer meetings,

flew in a plane for the first time since the pandemic started, re-acquainted myself with

the wonders of air travel, you know you could fly coast to coast in 4-5 hours?

How about that?

What will they think of next?

And so, because Meg was traveling and I was traveling, I scheduled some guests and I'm

gonna give you a variety show today.

There won't be any song and dance numbers, but there will be a little bit of poetry.

This episode will be three interesting segments, three topics I wanted to talk about.

First I will be joined by a man who goes by Mr. King, who is the creator of something called

Northwood's baseball sleep radio, fake baseball for sleeping.

He has created a fictitious league and a fictitious broadcaster, Alter Ego, and he creates essentially

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