If baseball were different, how different would it be?

And if this thought haunted dreams, well stick around and see what Ben and Meg have to say philosophically and pedantically it's effectively

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Effectively Wild!

Hello and welcome to episode 2131 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our

Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer.

Joined by Meg Rowley of fan graphs. Hello Meg. Hello.

2131 like Cal Ripkin, we are breaking Lou Gehrig's record of consecutive games here, 2,

1.30.

Still a few more years of episodes until our total catches up to Cal though.

We got a ways to go.

Yeah, I was gonna say.

You know, I don't know that we can actually count this

as challenging Cal, because even I take some episodes off.

So effectively Wild has had that. Even I take some episodes off. Right.

Effectively Wild has had that many episodes,

but no one host of Effectively Wild.

We take days off every now and then.

Every now and again.

For major life events which yeah like taking

vacation or feeling sick sometimes Ben's like I must be dead before I cannot

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