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So stick around you'll be well,

be well be guide.

It's effectively wild.

Like Nolan, Ryan was sometimes.

Sometimes. Hello and welcome to episode 2085 of Effectively Wild at

Baseball Podcast from fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer joined by Meg Rally of fangrass hello Meg. Hello. It's awards week in

Major League Baseball and I have carefully studied the matter.

I have given it great consideration.

I have reflected.

I have examined my own feelings and I have reached the conclusion that I couldn't care less.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, I don't think it would be possible for me to care less and I think that's because there's no suspense whatsoever, right? There's no

suspense. Now I've generally cared less about award voting and awards

results over time anyway. I've kind of come to the

conclusion that the seasons were what they were and we can evaluate them as we

see fit and the word of 30 of our colleagues in the BBWAA or even you as the case

may be and as the the vote or award may be, not this year, right, but some years.

It doesn't sway me, really, I guess.

It doesn't change my appreciation all that much of what a player did or didn't do. But beyond that, my larger shift

toward not caring so much about awards results, there just don't seem to be any

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