Together again, my tears have stopped falling

The long lonely nights are now at mid

The kiss to my heart, you hold in your pain

And the flowers, matters, we're together again

Hello and welcome to episode 1916 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrass, presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, not joined today by my regular co-host Meg Rally

Not because the Mariners' fortunes have dropped off dramatically since we last spoke, that's pure coincidence

She's just traveling, has some other applications today, and so, in her absence, I'm joined by some other co-hosts of mine, or at least former co-hosts

We are taking this opportunity to do a takeover of The Effectively Wild Feed for a Ringer MLB Show reunion show

And so, I am joined by all of my former co-hosts-slash producers of The Ringer MLB Show, dearly departed, Michael Babman, hello Michael, hello!

Mike works for Fangrass now, as many of you listening know, so this is sort of a home series for him as well

And Zach Kram of The Ringer, hello Zach, hello, and Bobby Wagner of The Ringer, and also of Tipping Pitch's fame, hello Bobby

Ben, it's good to hear all your voices again, it's been a while

It feels like it hasn't been long at all, like hearing all of us together in the same chat room, it takes me back immediately in a very visceral sense

Yeah, the magic is still here, I can sense the chemistry that we always had, still present

We were even five minutes late to recording this because I had to get coffee because it's 8am my time

Just randomly on the west coast, right now, even though I have moved back to New York since the Ringer MLB Show was dearly departed

Did you say we were five minutes late? Because the rest of us were here

Yeah, I want to point that out

You live in New Orleans, too, was it just me? Was it just me guys?

Yeah, it's just you

Just the producer holding up the show

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