You know it now, we don't get no sleep

I hear you walk alone, just like the night before

And I don't know, I don't know how to feel

Hello and welcome to episode 1938

to Effectively Wild a baseball podcast

from the band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Ben Linger of the ringer, not joined today by Meg Rally

who was planning to join me this week from the Winter meetings in San Diego

As it turned out, she is not at the Winter meetings in San Diego

because she has the flu, which is also why she is not on this podcast

And so I have turned to another fan graphs writer

and perhaps the only other writer who is not in San Diego at the Winter meetings

and does not have the flu, Dan Semborski of fan graphs at low-down

Hi Ben, I am here by my two skills of not being in the Winter meetings and being healthy-ish

Yeah, right, you and I don't have illness as an excuse for not being there

We just don't get out much, I guess is what it basically comes down to

And you are a good person to talk to during these busy transaction times

because it seems like you must have an in with the person who runs the Zips projections

I don't know how you think you know what the Zips projections are before they're released

but it seems like you make them up yourself for you have some kind of back alley connection

with the bootleg Zips, I don't know how you manage it

but it seems like you're always publishing these things before everyone else has access to them

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