Hello and welcome to episode 2073 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs

presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh, of the ringer joined by

Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. Hello, Meg. Hello. We are recording during ALCS Game 2 in the closing moments,

maybe, perhaps, so maybe we can start elsewhere and perhaps we will have a final by the end of this

intro we shall see. But there has been some big off-the-field baseball news that was reported on

Monday, so that might be a place where we could start. Kim Aing, no longer the Marlin's GM. She is

out, it was... Well, it sounds like it was a contentious situation. There have been a couple of

pieces that have come out. Brittany Drolley wrote about it for the athletic, Jeff Passon wrote about

it for ESPN, and essentially her deal was up, so she was not fired, and in fact the Marlin's

exercise there end of a mutual option, and she did not, though it sounds like she had every reason

not to, based on some of this reporting. So the way that Brittany Drolley characterized it was

that this came as a result of numerous instances in which Aing felt like she was being stripped

of her power and underappreciated. And one of those instances, one piece of evidence there,

was that the organization didn't offer her a new three-year deal following the conclusion of

her initial three-year deal, and the Marlins making the playoffs in 2023. So often when that happens,

you will get sort of a re-up the same deal that you had before. I think Buster only reported that

they offered her some sort of extension, but I guess it wasn't for the same length. I don't know

what the details or the terms were, so that was one thing. Another thing is that she was to

quote the athletic piece, having trouble getting rid of some of Miami's holdovers from previous

regimes, and then the big thing is that apparently they wanted to put a pobo over her. They wanted

to hire a pobo. Are we going to make pobo happen? I like pobo. I like saying pobo. So I'm going to

say pobo. Pobo sounds like a value meal at Burger King to me, like I don't know why, like

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