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Hello and welcome to episode 2316 of Effectively Wild, a fangrafts baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Reilly of Fangraphs, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you? I'm never been better

because I've never been brebier than I am today. And this is a momentous episode of Effectively Wild.

John Brebia is here. Yeah. My baseball boyfriend, who I formed an attachment to this spring.

And when I fall, I fall hard. And I shared

some of my findings on the podcast. We talked about why he seemed to be such a charming fellow.

And now he is here to show that himself. So very exciting. And I have a long conversation with

John Brebia, which sadly you were not party to

because right before we were going to record, you had a cat situation to sort out.

And so...

Everything's fine.

Yes.

And I know that you had a legitimate cat situation to sort out, but it seemed like it was almost as if, you know, you sort of set up two people and then you excuse yourself.

You know, it's like you make some excuse.

Oh, I better check on whatever's cooking in the kitchen or something, like let them have some alone time.

Just going to let you guys talk while the deal was.

Yeah. It felt like that. Yeah. Or that you just didn't want to be exposed to the professing of affection for John Brebia that I was about to display. But I know it was not that, but it worked out okay because I had even more alone time with my man.

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