How can you not be protected? A sta blast will keep you distracted. It's a long slog to death,

but they're sure to make you smile.

This is effectively wild.

This is effectively wild. This is effectively wild.

This is effective wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2 159 of effectively wild.

A fangrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley at fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben Lemberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm all right, how are you?

Covering in bees!

Tell me about the bees, you were at the bee game. The last time we were recording

you were in a hurry to get to the ballpark and I guess it turns out that you didn't

have to be in a hurry because B delay. Yeah, look, I've struggled in the last year plus to write really anything at all. It's just been hard go for me you know it's like the the muscle has

atrophied and so I feel like I keep tweaking it every time I so anyway I've been I'm fascinated by Chase Field as like a place. I think that it is a

reflection of like a particular kind of Arizona dirt bag but also like a place that is

aspiring to be more than that. There's a gym in center fields Ben like you can you

just have a gym membership and you can't see the game from the gym to be clear but like there's a there's an entry point to the gym in center fields.

Why? Why?

Yeah, why, okay?

So, like, there's a lot about it that is very Arizona.

And I felt myself compelled to like defend it as a place in October when various tired, not trying to be

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