We'll make the matinee with my newest life and be that bright time.

And for a time what makes you crazy?

So I can second against my focus are you gonna hire me?

Hello and welcome to episode 1973 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fangrass and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumber, a little ranger. Ben, how are you?

Well, they're honest to goodness, spring training games going on today. So pretty well.

Yeah, it's another milestone reached on the long march to opening day.

Yeah, yeah.

Even if it's a college team playing against non-starters in some cases, it still counts.

I mean, if that is your criteria then you should just watch college baseball.

Because guess what? There's been baseball on.

Although I understand I know why people get defensive as maybe too strong,

but they're like, there's baseball other places besides major league baseball.

And that is true and I hope folks will check that out.

But I do understand that when people's main viewing experience is major league baseball,

it's a momentous occasion, but also when you should watch college baseball.

Yeah, so I've been told there are just so many players, you know?

It's hard to know who they are. It's hard enough to keep track who the major leagueers are.

These days they're more of them than ever.

Where?

To have to know anything about college teams where all the players turn over every few years and

there are so many teams and I have no real loyalty to any of them.

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