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Effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2234 of effectively wild a fangrass baseball

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters I'm a rally fan graphs and I am joined

by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer Ben you're here weren't you supposed to go away yeah

is supposed to be away this is my Dante from clerk's episode not even supposed to be

here today but you can't get rid of me that easily I can't get rid of myself I

realized that my flight was leaving late enough for me to record an episode

beforehand and then we got resolution to the championship series we know the world series match-ups. I just wanted to talk about the baseball.

So here I am. Sorry to everyone who was looking forward to my absence. I hate to disappoint you.

I mean, I'm sure that everyone is happy that you're here

Ben the people like you you're you're a very popular Ben among among all of our

Ben's one of the most popular I would say. Well such a lustrous constellation of bent in the effectively wild orbit, but we can wrap up the

CSs. We can talk a little bit about what lies ahead a yawning gulf of four baseball list days

between us and the world series as we record here on Monday afternoon but a lot to

look forward to a lot to recap let me ask you first are you

someone who partakes in pitch-com conspiracy theories do you do you buy that

there's gamesmanship going on here?

Because just in terms of like players maybe

fabricating pitchcom problems in order to say give their pictures a break or have some kind of conference because we have seen a lot of

Pitchcom malfunctions or people you know just tap in the head It's like Luke and Han in Star Wars in the Storm Trooper

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