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 ribbon, all in a living week.

Cross-check can compile by the new understanding.

Not effectively, why the can you not be pedantic?

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

Hello and welcome to episode 2061 of Effectively Wild,

a fan-grest baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan-grest, and I am joined as always

by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben, how are you?

Not bad, how are you?

I am fine.

All right, the vent full intro, as always,

and so we will move on to the banter portion of the podcast.

I did have one observation about big, sexy,

Bartolacolone, who retired as a member of the Metz this past weekend.

And you might say Bartolacolone wasn't retired already?

No, not officially.

This is part of the tradition of baseball players and athletes in general.

Retiring long after, I think everyone else assumed that they were retired.

Sometimes athletes are maybe the last to know that they're retired

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