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Hello and welcome to episode 2039 of Effectively Wild, a fangirl space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Mac, Riley, a fangirl, and I am joined as always by Ben Limberger of the ringer Ben Hario.

I'm relieved that for the most part we haven't had to talk about very ridiculous unwritten rules controversies this season.

Have we? It's not like they're completely eradicated, but there haven't been that many times where it's risen to the level of

we feel like we need to discuss this uneffectively wild, which frankly is refreshing.

But today, we've got to talk about one because it's a new level of silliness, I think, at least for this season.

We've got to talk about the Miles Michaelis Ian Hatt flap, which happened on Thursday.

And it's among the dumbest baseball kerfuffles that I can recall.

I guess there's like a many way tie for the dumbest because there's so many that are just so dumb,

but so dumb. This is down there with the rest of them.

Or up there, as it gets me there. It's a very long list.

But this one, okay, just to set the scene here.

Now, first of all, Miles Michaelis is involved. So that right there tells you.

He is one of the foremost red asses in baseball today. This is, again, a man who is nicknamed

the Lizard King because on a bet in the bullpen in an Arizona fall league game in 2011,

he ate a live lizard and then just washed it down with a beverage of some sort.

And this was posted on YouTube. And I will never really think of Miles Michaelis without

remembering that he ate a live lizard on a dare. Yeah. Which makes me feel bad for the lizard

for one thing. But also makes me question Miles Michaelis. And that's not the only thing that makes

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