You call me a man, really?

If you need me, I, my baby, yeah

You are there, my baby, yeah

There's a light in the sky

Then I see, then I know that we're halfway

We're here, I know that we're halfway

Hello and welcome to episode 1957 of Effectively Wild

A fan-graphed baseball podcast for us

You're by our Patreon supporters

I'm Egg Rally of Fan-graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer

But how are you?

I'm doing great because I don't know if you know this

But we are officially more than halfway through the offseason

Wow

Yeah, Tuesday was the milestone

So we have a listener and a member of our Facebook group, Kyle Lobner

Who every day he does a countdown to opening day

And he does it with a little theme

Where he looks up the average of a baseball reference war and fan-graphs war

And baseball prospectus warp

And then he looks for who, let's say, if it's 71 days until opening day

Which is the case Wednesday when we're recording

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