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For a Mike Trout, we're free. Hello and welcome to episode 2, 226 of Effectively Wild, a fangrafts baseball podcast brought to you by our

Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh, fangrafts and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the

ringer. Ben, how are you?

I'm overwhelmed by how much we have to discuss today.

Oh boy, so many things.

This is what happens when you devote an entire episode to the White Sox.

And then a few days ago, by.

We've missed three eliminations. We've had multiple front office overhauls.

We've had just so much to discuss and so we will get right to it, although I would like to start by noting that when I was watching

Braves Padres, game two on Wednesday evening, it's the ninth inning.

The braves are facing elimination.

It's super high stakes.

It's a one-run game at that point.

Robert Suarez comes in to try to close things out for San Diego and Robert Suarez I'm watching on

ESPN via YouTube TV and he was flickering he was shimmering it looked like he was in the Take on Me video and was

entering the comics world or like he was streaming on twitch while playing

World of Warcraft or something.

We have talked about the green screen effect before.

And some listeners have written in and rented about this,

but I think it bothered me more in this situation than it has ever bothered me before because

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