Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me?

When we look at baseball, how much do we see? Well, the curveball's bend and the home runs fly.

The more to the game than meets the eye to get the stats compiled and the stories filed

The story's filed

fans on the internet might get riled but we can break it down

on effectively wild

hello and welcome to episode 2233 of Effectively Wild a

fangrass baseball podcast presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindenburg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of

fan graphs. Hello Meg. Well we are powerful witches indeed. I think that's the

only conclusion we can draw from what went down immediately after we finished recording our last episode.

We knew that we were in an awkward spot timing-wise, the same awkward spot we find ourselves in now.

Well, it'd be nice when baseball's over

and we can just not have baseball interfere

with our podcast recording schedule anymore.

That's when you know you have your priorities,

not so straight. It's good to have baseball, but it does sometimes make timing difficult in the post season.

So we talked about how comparatively dull the ALSS had been and frankly all Yankees games this

post season compared to the excitement of games that the Mets were involved in or the Dodgers

and we talked about what to do with Austin Hedges and how should

Stephen vote handle that and will he make the right calls? And then we also talked about show hey otani and his very

recent very tiny sample inability to hit with nobody on base and pretty much

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