Not only the staplas, the staplas, the before is on sweats,

the Zavi Pei d'ance and super a fait.

I think that's effectively cool?

I'm cool say effectively wild.

Effective moral sovage. effective moral salvage.

effective moral salvage.

Hello and solvage.

Hello and welcome to episode 21, 23 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 fancrafts hello Meg. Hello. Have we ever got a preview pod for you?

Oh boy. That makes it sound like it's a particularly special preview pod. It's one of 15 that we will be doing before opening day, but it's a fun one. It's a couple of fascinating teams, I think, and good guests. We hope they're and good guests.

We hope they're all good guests.

But yeah, returning guests.

So Alex Spear of the Boston Globe will be joining us soon to talk about the Boston Red Sox and A.J.cassvel of M.L.com.

We'll be talking to us about the San Diego Padres.

Lots of questions we could ask about those two teams and that in fact we did ask and will ask from your perspective the

listener. However I was kicking myself for a minute after we did our Mets preview

last time or two times ago because I was thinking I should

have asked about Billy Eppler's investigation that ongoing investigation what's

the status of that I guess it's less of a preview than a review.

But I'm glad, I guess, that we didn't ask about that because we probably would have gotten a non-committal

answer and now we know the outcome of that investigation, which is that Billy Eppler's in some trouble

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