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don't, oh wow, oh wow, nothing less than effectively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2206 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball

podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of fan graphs

and I am joined by Ben

Linnberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you? I'm all right. I know that you were

traveling over the weekend so I don't know how much of players weekend you got to

take in but I got to say after watching players weekend, I kind of

think the custom bats should be permanent. I kind of think we should have the custom bats all the time why are we depriving ourselves

of the colorful custom bats most of the year sure yeah you don't find them you don't find them

distracting at all you your your game for don't yeah

distracting in a good way maybe where I notice them and think oh that looks cool that's

that's personalized and individual and inject some personality into the game.

I like it.

We've seen this before, these air-brushed bats, I think a company called Victus Sports makes most of them but they've been used before at

special events I guess this was a special event but exhibitions home run derbies that sort of thing. And so this year they were used

for at least the first day of players weekends.

There was like a different designation

for each day in the weekend and Friday was the day for fun which you'd think all the days would be for fun

hopefully ideally but one was for like charitable causes right so the day for fun specifically was the one where everyone got to show up their custom bats and there were a lot of really cool and clever ones. I mean, Bobby Wood Jr. was using a Pablo Sanchez bats well timed for the

apparent return of backyard baseball and backyard sports games and there were a lot of

crayon and pencil themed bats and some superhero ones and just really interesting color themes and I don't know I guess maybe they would be boring if we had them all the time and maybe part of why I thought they were so cool is that it's just one weekend a year, one game a year.

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