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Hello and welcome to episode 2289 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am

Van Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGraphs. Hello, Meg. Got a couple meaty preview

segments for you today. We will be talking to Tim Britton of the athletic about the New York Mets,

followed by Sam Blum, also of The Athletic, about the Angels.

Briefly, before we get there, first of all, I've been a little flummoxed by all of the discourse

about the 2024 World Series.

Have you followed some of this back and forth, the jawing the war of words between some

Dodgers and then Aaron Boone also and most recently

Nestor Cortez, who's not even a Yankee anymore, but just about the Dodgers criticizing

accurately, but perhaps not tactfully, the Yankees' performance in that World Series. So this

became a thing because Aaron Boone came out earlier this month,

and he kind of took a shot at the way that some Dodgers had talked about the Yankees,

because it was Joe Kelly, who's always willing to speak frankly.

He's not even a Dodger anymore. I know. That's the thing. It's like Joe Kelly is the self-appointed spokesman of the Dodgers.

It's like, sir, you were barely a factor for the 24 team.

You weren't on the postseason roster.

I guess maybe because of that he could speak freely.

And he always speaks freely regardless.

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