You can call me the great pretender

Need a way in my future

When I'm the last of the big time spenders

And I've been spending time on you

Hello and welcome to episode 1941 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grab space ball podcast

Brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Egralea, a fan-grab and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the ringer

Not of the New York Metz, although maybe one of the only people who was an employed by them

Hello Ben, how are you?

Do it well, how are you?

I am also not employed by the New York Metz, but I am well nonetheless

Well, we will be talking about those Metz and probably also the team on the opposite end of the payroll spectrum

The Oconace, we can just do a best of times, worst of times, biggest of payrolls, lowest of payrolls

The episode today because yeah, the winter meetings are over but the moves have kept coming

That's more transactions to talk about and many of them met's related

So I guess Brandon Nemo broke after we recorded the last time

Correct

David Robertson and that was followed by Kodai Sanga

So the Metz now are basically breaking the scale when it comes to payroll

So we can discuss the implications of that a little bit

Just because we all kind of wondered is Steve Cohen just going to go for it?

Just push through every tax threshold and spend like someone who is worth many, many billions of dollars

And he has answered that question in the affirmative so he has really separated himself

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