The raky hypotheticals are perfectly styled, and the stat-blast queries are detectively compiled.

The non-agarian baseball legends selectively dialed, but their spiciest takes are still respectfully mild.

More than 2,000 episodes retro-spectively filed, and at each new one, we still collectively smile that's effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2056 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters, and also from fan crafts.

Did I say that in the opposite order that I normally do?

Yes, but the important thing is that I said both things, and also that I introduced myself because I am Benlund Brug of the Ringer, and you are Meg Rally of fan crafts.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

This is a second straight episode where one of us has sort of circled the runway, and eventually landing the plane after being in a bit of a holding pattern.

Yeah, I mean, look, I am on vacation.

You are dealing with the lingering effects of COVID and voice and all sorts of stuff.

So the important thing is that we land the plane.

Yeah, honestly, it's impressive that we're landing the plane.

I think everyone should clap for us and be pleased that we're here.

Or is it unimpressive because this is episode 2056, so you'd think like we've put in enough flight time at this point that you'd think we would probably have the intro down.

But every now and then, I've said this before, but when you think about it, when you're in the middle of that pattern, when you just go into effectively wild intro mode.

Okay, I've done this 2,000 times, so I can surely do it again with that incident.

And then suddenly you look up or look down in the middle of your intro and you forget what order you say everything.

But hey, we got there in the end.

And now we're going to get to the actual episodes after talking about the intro to the episode.

So I have some feedback from listeners about a banter topic from last time when I kind of complained or we commiserated about how hard it is to distinguish an impressive throw per stat cast.

It just doesn't seem like the eye test always matches the stat cast that's particularly when it comes to throws.

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