If baseball were different, how different would it be?

The players are growing third on, sending the field in a tree.

Anything is fair game, even you can get dirty pants.

And maybe if you're lucky, you'll co-called by the chance.

You never know precisely where it's gonna go by definition

effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2034 of effectively wildgrafts 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 gotta get something off my chest.

Uh-oh.

For the past couple days, the whole internet has been having a laugh at the renderings for the

A's proposed ballpark in Las Vegas?

Yes, they have.

And to that, I say, people always laugh at true visionaries at first.

And then in retrospect they realized they were the laughing stocks. They were the ones who were thinking too small.

Were the A's Ballpark rendering supposed to be? than ones who were thinking too small.

Were the A's ballpark rendering supposed to be available a few months ago?

Yes.

But brilliance can't be rushed.

Was the ballpark supposed to have a retractable roof, not a fixed roof?

Sure. But sometimes the sign of a nimble intelligence is not stubbornly sticking to preconceived

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