If baseball were different, how different would it be?

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Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to Episode 86 of Effectively Wild.

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I'm Meg Raleigh of the Fangrafts and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer. Ben, how are you?

Viva Las Vegas, I guess?

Hmm.

Sorry, Ace Fans.

Man, I want to make a fart sound, but...

I don't know it was mostly a formality that the NLP owners were going to approve the A's move to Las Vegas, which they

unanimously did at the owners meetings this week.

That was not seen as a major hurdle among the many hurdles and there still are some hurdles

remaining there's that teacher-led group that is objecting to the public

funding for a ballpark there and some at least remote possibility of a referendum

so it's not a done deal and obviously there's just countless questions about where the A's

are going to play and whether anyone's going to come see them and support them in Las Vegas.

But this makes it feel official maybe or people who haven't followed it super closely, maybe would have assumed that this was a huge hurdle that had to be cleared, but ultimately,

MOP owners usually not going to stand in each other's way unless someone wants to move a

team into their backyard I suppose. I just am so skeptical of the success that

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