It's Effectively Wild.

It's Effectively Wild.

With then and back.

And back rally.

Hello and welcome to episode 2308 of Effectively Wild,

the Fangraphs Baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraff, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm doing okay, and I'm pleased to report that you still have time to get to Oriole Park at Camden Yards if you want to be

one of the first 15,000 fans to attend an

Orioles Reds game and get a David

Rubenstein bobblehead.

It's not today the day that this episode is going up.

It's a week from today.

So Saturday, April 19th, just cross it off or circle it on your calendar if you want to make the trek to Baltimore.

Not only to see the Reds at 405 start, but if you are one of the lucky first 15,000 fans, you will get a bobblehead

of the team owner.

So, look, you know, we've talked about this in the context of hats.

We've talked about this in the context of ballpark promotions.

We've talked about it in the context of other bits of team-related ephemera, where you need, like, you need some empowered people on your PR and marketing staffs to say, so, hey, there's an accidental dick in this, or, hey, you put the word tits on a hat you

did you mean to do that hey did georgio kift designed this for us and um i'm not saying that uh

having uh a bobblehead of the owner is quite the same as having tits on a hat.

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