We love to get our bats burned We believe in gunnets, jones, and

that there's nothing My drought cannot do We've been listening from the

start and we're listening still When we don't know the answers we say rich hill

Ben and Jeff and Sam It's all because of you

Effectively wild They only podcast that effectively

quenches our thirst for stans

Hello and welcome to episode 2000, 2000, 2000 of effectively wild a baseball podcast from

Fandgrass I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fandgrass Hello, Meg

Hello, we have at times poked fun at the fetish for round numbers and semi-arbitory

numerical milestones in baseball and in life and yet we sort of observe it ourselves

in that every 500-ish episodes we celebrate the continued existence of this

sport and this show and ourselves by drafting things we like about baseball with

three friends The first of them is podcast co-founder and former co-host Sam Miller

now of the Pebble hunting sub-stack Hello Sam. Hi, Dan. The second is former

co-host and current analyst for the first place Tampa Bay race My analysis suggests

that they're having an excellent season so far Jeff Sullivan. Hello Jeff. I've

been and Meg. Yeah, I've been introduced. Wow. Snubbing Sam already and also snubbing

the third friends in the fifth beetle of effectively wild grant bisfree of the

athletic hello grant I don't know whether you're George Martin or Billy Preston

or Stu Sutcliffe or someone else but we're happy to have you regardless. I'll go

with Billy Preston because if you saw that that Peter Jackson documentary when he

came in everyone else stopped bickering like he was a calming presence so that's

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