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Hello and welcome to episode 2, 179 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our

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I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rowley of fan graphs.

Hello Meg.

Hello.

Can I ask you to elaborate on a slightly spicy tweet of yours?

Oh, you're putting me on the spot then, but sure, sure.

Not that spicy, just semi-spicy. It had some seasoning a couple hours before we started recording.

You tweeted, think we can be done with the City Connects, yeah?

And you're not the only one who has expressed this sentiment, but I also saw some people in your replies expressing dissimilar sentiments.

So what's your take on the city connects and what prompted this outburst?

I'm so glad that you asked Ben because I put so much thought and care into that tweet and

definitely anticipated the level of engagement it would get.

I guess it isn't getting that much engagement.

I shouldn't feel so fancy.

Look, I think that some of the initial City Connect offerings were cool, you know? I think some of them looked really sharp. I think some of them spoke to the place where the team plays, which is, as I understand it, the entire point, entire point of this exercise, right?

I, for instance, really like the Washington Nationals. Terry Blossom City

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