Hello and welcome to episode 2043 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph space ball podcast

brought to you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan graphs and I'm joined

as always by Ben Limberg of the Ranger. Ben, how are you? I'm doing great. I haven't

punched anyone, been punched by anyone, suspended anyone, been suspended by anyone over the past several

days, so I'm ahead of the game here. You know, I think we'll take these in turn. What a few days,

it's been since we last spoke. Not a lot of covering oneself in glory as expression goes and

it has ranged from specific players to the owners of teams to, you know, sorry to say Ben,

you're Los Angeles Angels, although no fighting has been involved so far as I know. No, they've put

up very little fight. Oh yeah, well done, one of the nice little transition there. Yeah, it's been

it's been a couple of days, you know, where shall we, where shall we search, you want to start with

the Tim Anderson, Jose Ramirez of it all? Might as well, because we left off last time talking,

I've had a brawl involving the Chicago white socks and then not long after that conversation,

there was another one that was odd timing. Yeah, and I've seen some truthers come out of the

woodwork on this one too. We could talk about that with the actual fight that happened here,

because we talked about the 30th anniversary of Nolan Ryan V. Ventura and then we got Jose Ramirez

V. Tim Anderson on Saturday didn't end well for Anderson, who probably bore the brunt of that

even worse than Robin Ventura did, I suppose. But man, usually when you hear that there's been a

baseball brawl, a freakus of some sort, you go and watch and you're expecting a baseball,

bruhaha, right, where it's like by baseball standards, it's it's something, you know, it's a

rhubarb, but it's not an actual fight very rarely. Do you see a player actually put up his dukes

like an old-timey boxer? It's like, but you watch that one, it's like, oh, this was this was

actually a brawl, not even just a baseball brawl. I don't know if you can even say it was a brawl

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