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Hello and welcome to episode 2256 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Meg Rally Fangraffs and I am joined by Ben Limburg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Doing all right. How are your meetings proceeding?

You know, they're taking place in the not winter, but other than that, you know, they're fine.

I remain at times disappointed that the AV setup isn't better for these things.

You got a lot of people, a lot of reporters trying to hear various dignitaries, managers,

Roki Sasaki's agent, Scott Boris when the time comes.

And sometimes they are not miced at all, which is, you know, not the best because there's

so many people.

There's hustle and bustle.

There's the MLB network set right there.

Sometimes they are miced, but the mic doesn't work.

That's also annoying because then it'll do that thing where, you know,

cuts in and out this happened during Roki Sasaki's agent's standup.

That was hard to say today where he, you know, because Sasaki hadn't been formally posted, his agent really wasn't

able to say anything. Now that he has been formally posted, he was able to take questions.

And they gave him a mic, but it was cutting in and out. So then we could hear parts of it.

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