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Hello and welcome to episode 2239 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg.

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Much as I wish that we were prepping for a game six with the potential for a game seven on the horizon from a podcasting perspective.

It really does make things much easier when they stop playing postseason games.

I'm disappointed that the series didn't go longer and that the offseason has started.

But that feeling of when are we going to record, that doesn't work, because then there will have been another game.

And then there's another game.

Don't so much have to worry about that now.

And also, by the time you get to the end of October, there's just only so much more there is to say

about those teams, I find, because you're kind of covering those teams almost as if you're a local

podcast maybe that talks about the same team all the time. And yet, we're not quite equipped

for that, or at least we hyper focus on certain games and certain

teams in a way that we don't typically in this podcast where we just rove around and talk

about everyone and everything. And by the time you get to the World Series, you've seen 15,

16 games involving these particular teams, you've talked about their strengths, you've talked

about their weaknesses, you've done multiple series previews. And there's just not that much more

insight to add, I find. So part of me is disappointed. Part of me is almost relieved.

You know, every new matchup presents an opportunity for analysis. But like at the end of the day, there's just, there isn't a ton of new grist that you can sort of feed into the mill, right?

Yeah.

Like, did you know that the Yankees employ Aaron Judge?

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