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Hello and welcome to episode 2122 of Effectively Wild a fanrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh fangrafts and I am joined by Ben

Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you? Well I have been busy perusing the

playoff odds published at fancrafts.

com just as you promised on our previous episodes

you delivered.

They are in fact publicly available.

And I've been looking at them.

Anything surprise you when you saw them,

presumably before they went to press?

Just how normal everything is and how little tension it would inspire. I guess the good news, Ben, the good news for me, Meg, as the person who, you know, I promised that they would come, but actually had very little to do with their creation, as it turns out, was that things were like pretty well in line with what I was expecting and that the differences tended to be matters of like degree rather than category.

Yeah. I knew for instance that we would have a very high opinion of the Braves.

Boy do we of the Braves.

Boy, do we like the Braves Ben, you know?

But like that makes sense because they're a pretty good baseball team.

I will say like I saw the Orioles projection and I was like,

and you know, my anticipated consternation proved to be kind of prescient.

Yeah, you saw your shadow and you knew you were in for several more months of

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