and...

Hello and welcome to episode 1965 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of

Fangrass and I am joined as always by Ben Limburg of the Ring or Ben. How are

you? Also I almost put the intro but guess what? I steered out of the skid.

Steered into the skid. Which way are you supposed to steer with skids?

You're asking me? The non-driver here? Into the skid though right? I know that.

I steered into it and then I didn't crash. There you go.

Yeah. I never steered into or out of one but I know that you're supposed to steer

into it and yes you saved it. Anyway I'm here yes and it begins again.

Yeah. We're doing it. We're doing it. It's the team season preview series.

I never know whether to call it the team preview series or the season preview series.

It's both. So we are doing this. I guess it's the 10th anniversary of the

first time there wasn't effectively wild season preview series. We started

these in 2013. It's gone through all sorts of incarnations and formats since

then but we seem to have hit on one that people like a few years ago and after

an off year last year because of the lockout where we just did division

previews instead of team by team. We are going back to the full 30 team team by

team two teams per pod format that will take us up to the week of opening day.

So I'm excited to embark on this journey. I can't believe it is time again.

I feel all confused afraid. Perhaps a little

trepidacious but also been very excited. Yeah it can be a bit of a hassle from a

...