Fans on the internet might get riled, but we can break it down on Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2124 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rally fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberger the Ringer, Ben.

How are you?

I'm all right.

How are you?

I'm good. Good. I watched the Super Bowl. I said proudly. I know me and a hundred

million other people so nothing that notable about that except that I

don't always watch the Super Bowl and when I don't watch the Super Bowl I try not to

make a big deal about it I try not to ostentatiously performatively not watch the Super Bowl.

You know, I don't want to be one of the sports ball hand egg people.

It's fine to watch the Super Bowl.

It is a cultural event. But even if you don't care about the sport,

I was not really watching because I cared so much about the football itself or even about usher though usher was very good or even about

Tavis although Taylor and Travis were very heartwarming I was watching in large part because I knew I had to do a podcast about the trailers

that premiered during the Super Bowl which is probably not the most common reason to

watch the Super Bowl although some people they watch for the ads and intrigue, you know,

they're just many, many different reasons to watch the Super Bowl and also the

football. That is a pretty popular reason. It was a good football game as I understand it. I think I

understood enough to say that it was indeed a good football game. Yes. And it did cause some slight envy in me to arise some sports envy as a baseball supporter.

There are some ways in which I feel like we've got it better than the other sports and the people who follow other sports exclusively and then there are other ways in which I feel like I would be cool if baseball had something like that.

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