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Hello and welcome to episode 2008 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Linberg of the

ringer joined by Meg Rally of Vangrass. Hello Meg. Hello. Meg how much time have

we spent over the years and this year specifically speaking about home-run

celebrations and players predicting things? I think a lot. A lot. Yeah a lot of

time. A lot of time. And there's been a new development on both fronts really a

story that intersects and overlaps with both of these trends that were

tracking players constantly predicting things that will happen in games or

claiming after the fact that they did predict them and then also developing

rituals to celebrate home runs. So the Cardinals, not the most fun team in the

majors, perhaps this season we've talked about that too, but now that they've

solved their catching problems by reocquiring Wilson Contreras, which is

great move by them by the way, plugging in Wilson Contreras behind the plate. I

really I like that for them and they have allowed four runs in the three games

that he's been back there. So how about that? I don't know if he's undergone the

William Contreras defensive overhaul, but he's holding his own anyway. The Cardinals

have debuted the cheeseburger phone. Okay. So this is not exactly a home-run

celebration. I think they're one of the few teams, the holdouts that doesn't

have a full home run celebration. Maybe just because the Cardinals haven't been in

the most celebratory mood just in general this season, but they do hit a fair

number of home runs. So what they're doing now is using a cheeseburger phone to

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