Effect Wild. Well and welcome to episode 2101 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm a rally of fan graphs and I'm

joined by Ben Lemberger of the Ringer. Ben, how are you?

I'm doing all right. I'm kind of enjoying our little lull in transactions the past few days.

Not a league mandated lull like the NHL has and you wish MMB had but a natural lull.

I came to learn of this NHL transaction freeze via

Emma Bachelary who I believe learned about it from an NHL writer named

Frank Suravale, Siravale, Frank.

So sorry if I'm saying your name wrong.

And it inspired me to think about how like hockey is a sport where like dudes can fight each other a little bit they're allowed to fight a little bit they're not allowed to like

really fight any less than they used to yeah the brawling has come down to what I imagine they understand to be like a therapeutic level.

But despite that, despite a sport that allows for fighting what civility they show you know what

respect of each other's time I know that the knock on affects the stats for their

media members probably not top of the list for

them in doing it but I think this is this is a nice this is so nice Ben you know

it's like everybody likes their little jobs.

They're grateful for their little jobs.

I think we get to do very cool jobs in this space,

but it's nice to rest also and to not make your mom mad as I mentioned last

episode and you know these some of these guys some they they seem to have a how do I want to put this neutrally, like an indifference to the season and the potential effects it has on the people involved directly and also their loved ones.

And so I think it would be nice if we had a league mandated period of rest

and we could build in exceptions as needed, although we would require fewer of them than the

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