Sometimes I still feel like that little girl hearing grandma's hand-held ladies. hearing Grandma's handheldies collecting baseball cards before I could read.

You say I waste my time tracking all these that lines and here I found my kind You're all effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2232 of effectively wild

a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our

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

ringer Ben how are you well first things first if anyone is hearing this

before Friday night it is not too late for you to sign up for our second Patreon exclusive playoff live stream, which will be during ALS game four.

Look at us actually following through on our intention to tease something

at the very top of the episode. It never quite happens until this time. But time is short, so you

still have a chance, sign up for the Ned Garver tier and you can join us in

our discord group and follow along as we discuss that game. Second things second, more relevant

maybe if you are not listening to this before Friday we are

recording it kind of an awkward time as often happens in October because there have been

two games since we last potted and there will be two more games

before we next pod and probably before people hear this so we're kind of caught in

between but we can talk a little bit about some other news and some

evergreen still interesting takeaways from the games that have happened thus far I hope and

then maybe we'll even squeeze in some

emails it's been so long it's been an age an eon an epic since we did a an email

episode this won't be a full email episode, but maybe we'll dabble in a few.

Maybe in the fine tradition that we established at the start of this month of talking about the

white socks instead of exciting playoff action.

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