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Hello and welcome to episode 2294 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

to our Patreon supporters.

I'm Mike Rowley, Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Just reeling from the revelation, or really, I should say, confirmation that Mo Vaughn took HGH

about a quarter century ago.

Just has blown my mind, has rocked me back on my heels, say it ain't so Mo.

I was just not expecting to consume so much MoVon content this week.

Just devastating, devastating to learn this that MoVan dabbled in HGH 25 years ago.

I completely missed that as a story.

I hate to break this to you.

Yeah, I know, just the real-time reaction, learning that your idol has feet of clay, Movaun.

He did indeed take HGH, as the Mitchell report reported back in 2007.

But we hadn't heard it from the man himself until now.

I see.

Yeah, I was going to say, like, were we, we kind of had a sense, though, yeah?

I guess I may have entirely forgotten about the fact that Mubon was in the Mitchell report to begin with.

But I was not waiting here with bated breath for confirmation or refutation one way or another about what Mow van may have taken 25 years ago.

But now we know, and hopefully we can put it behind us.

Just as a country, we can heal, much like Movaun tried to when he took HGH roughly 25 years ago.

I got to tell you, Ben, I haven't thought about Movon and an age, you know?

Yeah.

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