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effectively why Hello and welcome to episode 2163 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, not joined today by my regular co-host Meg Rally of

Fangraf's who is on the road, and so I'm flying solo, but I'm never alone

for long when Meg is gone.

I've got to get guests, or you would have a very long monologue to listen to.

And as is often the case, when Meg is traveling, I have a cavalcade of conversations for you, three guests, three segments, and quite a range of subjects.

We're living up to the title of the podcast today. At the end of the episode I will be joined by frequent

Staplast correspondent Ryan Nelson, and he and I will combine to deliver

no fewer than six Stap Blasts. No more than six Stap Blasts either, precisely six.

All inspired by messages from Effect effectively wild listeners on the segment preceding the stat blasts,

I will be joined by journalist, film critic, Ringer contributor, Noah Gatell,

who wrote a brand new book about baseball movies called Baseball The Movie.

I know we did a baseball book interview on our last episode, but you've had a few days to finish

Andy McCullis Clayton Kershaw book, and it's such a page-turner, you're probably ripping through it and you must be

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