Here's your primer on Beef Boys, Baseball's Inn, Roger Angel, and Super Pretzels,

Williams Astadillo, and Mike Trout Hypotheticals,

waiting for the perfect bat from a volcanic eruption.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild introduction.

Hello and welcome to episode 2129 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

Wouldn't you watch a Boris 4 reality show?

Don't you wish there were a camera crew following the Boris 4 right now?

That would be must-see TV for me.

Really?

I want to know what kinds of conversations are taking place between Boris and each of the four among the Boris four.

I don't assume that they are in the same place, although if this continues for much longer, maybe will be because I know Scaporous has

his own training facilities and basically has said he can host his own spring training

when that has come up before so perhaps they will be ramping up together somewhere and I wonder

what kinds of conversations they're having right now. Like do you think there's a prisoner's

dilemma sort of situation going on with the Boris Ford where they're like,

we can't crack, we have to stay strong, solidarity.

If one of us takes some below market deal, then the teams will lower their offers for the rest of us, right?

We all have to maintain our Boris fourness.

We cannot splinter into Boris ones and twos or else we will lose our leverage.

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