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Effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2161 of Effectively Wild, a fangrafts

baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley

fangrafts and I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

I'm all right, how are you? I'm doing well. Good. Well our

pants and clothes are intact as far as I know at least mine are you cannot say the same for

Riley Green whose pants tore again in the same way on the same again again it happened

again to him.

Now I don't want to belabor the pants point and we know that the universal concern is the

pants, but he had the same seam tear and I can't figure out I haven't seen this happen to anyone else this

precise tear it very well may have but both times I've seen it, it's been Riley Green, and he slid the same way both times.

And I don't know if he has an unusual way of sliding.

He sort of, you know, puts his leg under him and slides on it. of supposed to be able to stand up to that strain that seems the stitches are

supposed to be strong enough and they're not. I just wonder why he specifically

is being victimized by the pants.

Because after the first time he tore the pants,

which was when he was sliding into home,

and that kind of went viral.

And it was reported by the athletic

that after his pants ripped his mother called him and

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