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Hello and welcome to episode 2049 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Aigrali a fan-graphed and I am joined again by Ben Lindbergh of the Ring,

a returned from his European adventures. Ben, how are you?

I'm okay, how are you?

I'm glad you're back. I'm well, you know. I always feel lucky to count so many fun

folks as baseball pals, but you know you missed your co-host when he's gone for a week,

so it's good to have you back, bud.

Yeah, it was tough for me to listen to you talk to a different Ben on Effectively Wild,

as I was listening to that. It was kind of screwed me up mentally as I was hearing you talk,

and then sometimes say Ben and was unable to respond, or I guess I was able to respond,

but you couldn't hear me. I couldn't hear you. No, did you enjoy the two times that I accidentally

called Bowman Ben? Yes, yes I did, I appreciate you with that. I thought about that.

Yeah, well, I had a nice time. Sweden was nice. I'm a blonde guy named Lindbergh,

so I fit right in, and I think you called it the cold north on one of those episodes,

but it was actually quite temperate. It's often quite cold as I understand it,

but at this time of year I think I picked the perfect time. In fact, it was so temperate that

Europe's aversion to air conditioning didn't even bother me that much. That's how cool it was.

I will admit to not really knowing what they were working with. I guess it's the northern hemisphere,

so it would make sense. It would be warm, or at least warm for them, but I'm glad that you had a

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