Well, it's moments like these that make you ask, how can you not be pedantic about baseball?

If baseball were different, how different would it be on the case with light ribbons all in a living week?

Cross-jerk can't compile by the new understanders, not effectively while they're can you not be pedantic?

Yes, when it comes to baseball, how can you not be pedantic?

Hello and welcome to episode 2045 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-graphed and I am joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

I'm doing okay, and Meg, we are not alone. We are not.

We are joined on this episode by one of our top tier Patreon supporters Samuel Giddens. Hello, Samuel, welcome.

Hello

Happy to have you and if you've listened to any of the previous Patreon supporters who've been on the show to answer emails with us

Then you probably know the first thing I'm going to ask you, which is what possessed you to become a top tier Mike Trout level Patreon supporter of Effectively Wild?

Well, the whole pandemic thing happened and just before I started getting back into honestly reading fan-graphs after a decade-long hiatus

I suddenly had a lot of time where I was walking outside or biking and

needed entertainment and it turned out there was this

Disturbingly large back catalog of

Effectively wild episodes and I you know, there's some list of like, oh, here's the top 300 episodes you should listen to

Yeah, just narrowing it down considerably

And I went through all of them. I figured I got a lot of entertainment out of

Podcast as the kids would say this is terrific content

So it's nice to be able to put my money where my tastes are

Well, it is just nice to receive your money and

And also to entertain you so

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