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Hello and welcome to episode 2095 and effectively wild a baseball podcast from

fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the

Ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of fan graphs back in Arizona. Hello Meg.

Hello.

So previously on Effectively Wild, last time we talked, we left off.

You were bound for the Scott Boris scrum.

I was.

And you made it, but it didn't work out quite the way you intended.

Not even a little bit, you know? So like here's a thing Ben I don't want to I don't

speak ill of TV people because like they got they have their job to do you know they

have a job that they have to do. But when you surround Scott Boris with a wall, a flotilla,

phalanx of TV people and their cameras you as a writer and for me a not tall writer

you end up at a meaningful distance and then they don't mic him they don't put a mic on him they should just have a little

lavelier it's odd they yeah they they roll out his backdrop his Boris backdrop you'd

think that he would want to be audible as well as visible.

Yeah, he was on a little platform.

Yeah, he was on a little platform.

Soapbox, he's on his scapbox, he's on his scapbox,

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