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Effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2114 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grafts

baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of

fangrafts and I'm joined by Ben Lemberg of the ringer on a Saturday.

Ben, how are you weekend pod at least for us

probably not for most people listening yeah for us we can put bringing that weekend

Saturday energy to this episode.

Yeah, it's like sometimes you're having a normal week

and then sometimes you don't and your brain's like,

hey, you know how you're stressed and haven't been sleeping a lot?

Here's your reward, migraine megg, and then everyone has to readjust their schedule a little bit.

So, hey, thanks for doing that.

Thank you, producer Shane for being

willing to accommodate my brain misfiring, you know? We stay flexible here. We

accommodate each other schedules on effectively wild. We get our three episodes in one way or another one day or another so

thanks to everyone for bearing with us. Yeah we had a you know we have a little group chat the three of us when we have scheduling stuff and I and I said in the midst of my migraine I'd rather be putting

I was like I didn't notice that until hours later when I had emerged from the worst of the migraine and I was like

like probably good thing we weren't potting because I saw that you said

putting instead of potting and I was going to say something but then I thought

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