Hello, it's effectively wild, it's effectively wild, of effectively of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraffs, who is in the Atlanta area,

gazing at Truis Park from her hotel room already for All-Star Week.

Hello, Hotel Meg.

Hello, it is Hotel Meg.

What can you see from your vantage point,

just the facade, the outside of the stadium?

I can see the facade of the stadium. I can see the facade of the stadium.

I can see many lanes of highway in between here and there.

I can see like the very, very tippy top of the scoreboard, I think.

Not so much that I would be able to discern any game action, but enough that when they light it up, it's like, well, yeah, that's a, that's a scoreboard.

No sign of blooper, I hope.

I wonder if he knows.

I wonder if he knows the distaste.

Are you going to have a run-in with blooper?

Are we going to hear some viral moment, some media member, just aghast at the site of Blupper during the All-Star Festivus?

Oh, boy.

Yeah, maybe.

I mean, look, I don't want to come into the creature's house and make it feel bad on its home turf.

But he is a monstrosity, an abomination,

an affronta God, and other mascots.

And the existence of Blupper within his division is an own goal that we should talk about

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