Take me to the diamond, lead me through the turnstile, shower me with data that I never thought to compile.

Now I'm freely now my scorecard

with a cracker shot of smile.

Effect to be wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2231 of Effectively Wild Baseball Podcast from Fangraphs presented by our

Patreon supporters. I am Benlinburg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of

Fangraph Meg. Hello.

You know how you said last week that Eric Adams is the exception

to your longstanding complaint

that you have to hear too much about New York politics?

Yes, I do.

Well, it's time to test that contention

because I'm gonna bring up Mr. Mayor again.

And I come not to indict him, that has happened already,

but to defend him in this case.

So you may have seen.

Ben.

You probably saw that Eric Adams went semi-viral took some flack for his choice of hat wear at the Columbus Day parade.

He wore what was widely regarded as an abomination,

just a heinous hat that combined both the Mets

and Yankees logos as a means of not taking sides currently in the Yankees Mets post-season aspirations, right?

Yeah.

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