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Hello and welcome to episode 2112 of effectively wild the fangrass baseball

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by Ben Lumburger the ringer Ben how are you doing okay I made a remark last week about 2112 and yeah it's also the name of a classic Rush album and we got some emails from people saying hey you should try to get Getty Lee on the show for episode 2112 and I will have everyone know I did try

I sent some emails I did not get responses to those emails

But I did attempt it. I don't blame Getty.

Maybe his people just didn't pass the request along.

Totally, yeah.

He'd probably jump at any opportunity to talk about baseball.

He's a huge diehard baseball fan and collector and historian

for anyone who doesn't know.

But yeah, would have been some synergy,

would have been a nice little promotional opportunity there but did not hear back.

I tried though.

Ben I think you have many very positive attributes as a podcaster and a writer, but I think one of the ones that I am most envious of,

and I've perhaps said this before on this very pod, but you just don't have any bashfulness about asking people for stuff and to be clear you always do it in a

respectful way you're always cordial never pushy but you're just like you know what I'll do send an email

what source happens he says no like or doesn't respond at all that's not a big deal so good for you Ben I say good for you yeah worth a shot anyway

maybe some other day down the road we'll get to talk to get a leave but it won't be quite as appropriate. Anyway, we have other baseball stuff to talk about. We haven't talked in a while by effectively wild standards.

So there's been a bit of news and some signings but not the big signings that people are

waiting for. We're now less than a month away from pitchers and Catchers reporting

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