Room, here's your primmer on Beef Boys, Baseball's end, Roger Angel, and Super Pretzels,

Williams Astadillo, and Mike Trout Hypotheticals,

waiting for the perfect bat from a volcanic corruption.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild introduction.

Hello and welcome to episode 2105 of Effectively Wild at Baseball Podcast from Fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Benlinburg of The Ringer. Not joined today by Meg Raleigh who is still on the road and dealing

with uncooperative Wi-Fi. But I am joined by two great guests in

her stead, Hannah Kaiser and Zach Krieser, Kaiser and Kaiser and Kaiser, Kieser and Krieser.

Yes, we've encountered that before.

I'm sure you have.

Formerly of Yahoo Sports and the late lamented bandwagon podcast.

Hello, welcome.

This is a nice little reunion we've engineered here.

Yeah, we really appreciate you engineering and on my reunion.

As we were just telling you, we reunion in person occasionally.

We were at dinner when you asked us to do this.

So we've talked baseball with each other, but no one else has gotten to hear it for a few weeks or I guess a couple months now.

If a podcaster podcasts in person does it make a sound? I mean if there's no mic if no one's

recording does that even count it could be personally satisfying but no

audience you're not performing for anyone it's entirely authentic.

Yeah other than like the people sitting at the bar

at a specific Brooklyn restaurant last night no one has any idea what we think about

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