Well, it's moments like these that make you ask,

How can you not be pedantic about baseball?

If baseball were different, how different would it be

on the case with light rippin all analytically cross check and compile find a new

understanding not effectively while that can you not be authentic?

Yes, when it comes to baseball, how can you not be pedantic? Oh, lovely. Okay. Here we go.

We should just start with that. Just the pregnant pause followed by laughter as you realize that you now have intro yips.

I have intro yips.

This is episode 2,222 of Effectively Wild, a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters. I am a rally of fan graphs and I'm joined by Ben

Lemberger of the ringer Ben, how are you? Well happy to have you back and there you go. Yeah, you ripped the rest right off once she got going. Yeah, the muscle memory came back. Yeah, I walked I walked the first batter of the inning but recovered from there so here we are.

I guess the tewies are wild, uneffectively wild today so just a 2-2-2 that maybe made it a little

easier for you but I have been

imagining you coming back from a couple weeks of vacation and just rip van

winkling back to the podcast not knowing what has happened in the intervening time and just

imagining you looking at the standings and saying the Tigers are where?

And Tony has how many steals and farmers? I'm sure you weren't completely off the grid but it's been a

well since we put it. Yeah it's been a minute and these standings, they look real different in some important ways.

I mean, not top to bottom, but we have some feisty tigers.

We have swooning royals. Spoaning Royals, and Twins.

And Twins, yeah.

We have a new franchise home run leader

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