More than 2,000 episodes retrospectively filed,

and at each new one we still collectively smiled

that's effectively

effectively wild

hello and welcome to episode 2107 of Effectively Wild, a 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.

I need a ruling from you on the secret Santa gift I gave.

I want to know whether you think it was mean or funny.

Not that it could be both, it could be both mean and funny.

It could be funny because it's mean.

Is this what I get for not being in the discord very much

that I don't know what you're talking about?

For those who don't know how the Effect of the Wild Secret

Santa works, one of our listeners,

Zach Wentcoz has organized it for years,

and people sign up to give some small, low dollar value

baseball-related gift to someone else who signs up and listens to

effectively wild and it's a nice little exchange. Yeah. And it's supposed to be I

think 25 bucks or less something like that. And you don't get much information

about the person you're giving the gift to.

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