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Hello and welcome to episode 2018 of effectively wild

A baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters

Still with a frocky voice I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs who sounds like her usual self-hello Meg

Hello

And we have the pleasure to be joined today by one of our mic trout tier Patreon supporters

Cashin in the perk to join us on a podcast and he is a frequent emailer of ours

And also someone who's come up on the podcast before for asking questions and prompting statplasts

Reggie deal, hello Reggie, welcome to effectively wild

Good morning and thanks for having me

Happy to have you so we always do a little bit of background with our Patreon guests on the show

Just to catch up with how you became a fan of the podcast and also how you became a fan of baseball

I guess we could start with the latter. How did you get the baseball bug?

So full disclosure I actually have a visual disability

I'm totally blind so I did not grow up playing the game

Yeah

But I grew up in a football family and in Texas of course it's cowboys and everything else is secondary

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