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Hello and welcome to episode 2318 of Effectively Wild, baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, not joined today by Meg Rally of Fangraffs, who is on vacation this week.

And as is often the case, it takes a few guests to fill Meg's shoes.

At the end of the episode, I'll be joined by frequent stat blast

correspondent Ryan Nelson, who has several stat blasts for us. But first, I have two thematically

paired segments. I often go with something high concept when Meg is away. I'm always fascinated by

people who are fans of multiple teams in the same sport, just how having those affiliations

works emotionally, the mental gymnastics

required, how they determine their fan priorities. And so today, I thought I'd talk to two people

who were fans of two MLB teams apiece and who have not had things go their way thus far this

season. So in this first segment, I will be talking to Brandon Uffner, who is a fan of both the

Baltimore Orioles and the Atlanta Braves. The two teams that got off to the slowest starts this

season in terms of World Series odds, playoff odds, et cetera. And I'm not trying to discount the

suffering of any other fans. There are worse and more demoralizing teams than these two. But

these two had high hopes. These were expected to be among the best teams in their respective leagues, and it has not

gone that way.

This first segment was recorded before the Orioles lost 9-1 to the Twins on Tuesday, and

the Braves squeaked out a 2-1 win in 10 innings over the Reds.

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