Hello, I waste my time tracking all these stat lines, but here I found my kind,

they're all effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2312 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm McGrawley of Fangraphs. I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. I am wildly out of practice. Ben, how are you?

I'm okay. You barely must have beat on that intro.

Thank you.

It felt a little stilted, but I feel like I ramped into a more normal cadence toward the end there.

I was saying before we got on mic, I'm out of practice.

What is podcasting?

Yeah, me too.

I'm out of practice speaking off script on this podcast.

What do I say when the words are not on the page in front of me?

Can I speak without the accompaniment of 1890s scratchy sounding music under my words?

Do people even want to hear that anymore?

I don't know.

But yeah, this all feels

unfamiliar, but we are back, back to bantering, back to the normal conversational format after

our detour, our digression of last week, which seems like people enjoyed. So thank you to everyone

who has written in to say nice things

about the Ella Black series. If you haven't gotten around to it yet, I hope that people will

check it out. It's evergreen, I guess, given that it's about 1890 mostly. So it's not really

getting a whole lot less topical and timely as the days go by here.

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