We twisted every what I said

Why me out and let me bet

Oh yeah, you been on my energy

But it's a thousand dollars to you

Betcha, hey, betcha, analyze and what I say

Betcha, yeah, betcha, and you always get your way

Hello and welcome to episode 1882 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I am joined as always

But Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben, how are you?

Well, I'm contemplating living in the darkest mic trout timeline

Which seems like where we are, where we might be heading

This is the worst, I mean, it could be worse

I guess, but it's not good

It sounds dire, the latest details about trout's diagnosis here

I feel semi-responsible because I joked the other day in ringer slack

Like to recap, mic trout initially was removed from a game with what was said to be back spasms

And he wasn't playing for a few days, but it sounded like he would be back imminently

In fact, I believe he was penciled into a starting lineup

One of those days and was a late scratch

And then he went on the injured list with what was termed rib inflammation

Right, and that sounded...

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