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Hello and welcome to episode 2,19 of effectively wild

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I am Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer and with Meg Rally on vacation, Old Home Week at Effectively Wild

continues as I keep calling on alumni of my alma mater Regis High School.

Last week I talked to the Miami Marlins Declan Cronin Regis Class of 2015 and today I talked to Joshian Regis class of well prior to 2015 I'll leave it at that

hello Joe. Following up Dan Zimborski and Jason Benetti too I just figure you ran

out of nice guys and now you're working on the jerks.

Well you may know Joe as one of the founders of Baseball Prospectus and the sole

founder and proprietor, unsurprisingly, of the indispensable Joe Shee baseball newsletter at jocian.com.

He is also a proud Regis grad and so it's always good to get together here at Regis and some

other schools reunions are sometimes called Jug Knights, J-U-G, which are named after another tradition,

Jug, which as I understand it actually comes from the Latin word

Yugum, which means yoke or collar or burden,

but is also often said to stand for justice under God.

Were you a frequent target of Jesuit justice during your Regis years?

I was because I had a terrible time getting to school on time coming from Inwood and

freshman year taking the buses and then eventually the subway and

a cross town bus I was late all of the time. I I think they started calling a Joe

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