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Hello and welcome to episode 2182 of effectively wild a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of fan graphs and I am joined by Ben

Lemberger the Ringer. Ben, how are you? Do you have anything weird on your

hands? No, they're soft and smooth and not at all sticky as far as I know.

But no one has felt them or massaged them today either, so I can't confirm.

Oh. massage them today either so I can't confirm. I do always enjoy what umpires say

when they report on having felt someone's hands in this case Edwin Diaz who was ejected and suspended for sticky

hands it's always funny when they describe they're like these are just the

stickiest hands I've ever experienced like these are stickier than all the other hands that I've felt for the past few years.

It's sort of insulting almost.

Boy, a few hands.

Sure, we're sticky.

I will always have like a significant amount of affection for Edwin Diaz, you know, he is a, he used to be a mariner, he's been through a lot.

His reputation in the game is that he's a pretty sweet guy.

And so like I feel bad for him on some level

because what a nightmare season he's having

and really like year and a half.

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