It's Effectively Wild.

It's Effectively Wild.

With then and back in Bag rally.

Hello and welcome to episode 2261 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

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

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

This is our last pre-Christmas Hanukkah Kwanza holiday episode. You're on the road. I am not yet,

but I will be. And so we're going to try to cram our recording in when we can this week. And I had

mentioned, by the way, that we were trying to set up a series of interviews about baseball jobs

that we could run this week and next to give ourselves and producer Shane a bit of a holiday break.

And that didn't happen.

I tried, but it was kind of complicated, A, to schedule all those interviews.

And a lot of people I reached out to said, oh, after Christmas, which was a very reasonable thing to say.

But also didn't help us because that was why we were trying to pre-schedule those things.

Also, it turns out that it's very tough to pre-tape this podcast while still continuing to tape the usual episodes, which is why we don't usually bank a lot of stuff in advance, because we're barely

keeping up as it is. We're just, we're paddling as fast as we can. We're, we're,

buckets of water just tipping over the side so that we can keep from sinking all the other

things that we do in addition to this podcast. And so it doesn't leave a ton of time to get ahead on things,

but I want to do that idea still. And hopefully even this offseason, we can make it happen.

And a lot of people wrote in with excellent suggestions for people with cool, perhaps unsung,

or underknown baseball jobs that would be fun to hear from.

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