Room, room, room. Here's your primer on Beef Boys, Baseball's Inn, Roger Angel, and Super

pretzels. Lillians Astadillo and Mike Trout hypotheticals, waiting for the perfect bat

from a volcanic corruption. Ladies and gentlemen, the Effectively Wild introduction.

Hello and welcome to episode 2368 of Effectively Wild, the Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraps and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you? Happy early Labor Day. Thank you. And hey, John Brebia's back in the big leagues. My boy, Brebia, he's a brave. He's a big leaker. I'm so glad, Ben, I have terrible news. Our landscapers actually just got here for real.

Well, maybe they'll drown out my singing because I have a song in my heart.

In your heart. I don't know why that was sung to the tune of Winchester Cathedral, but it seemed to fit.

And I'm just thrilled because he was nails in AAA.

AAA Gwynette, the AAA affiliate of Atlanta.

He threw 15 games, 19 innings, 1.89 ERA, 2.47 FIP, just dominated AAA hitters. And here he is. He's back for the stretch run,

not for the playoff push, but at least for the final month of the regular season. So my parisocial

baseball buddy is back and I am very pleased. Is it still parisocial when you've actually spoken with them?

Like, isn't that just social social?

I think one podcast probably does not a friendship make much as I would like.

Healthy boundary there.

Yeah, that's good.

I like that.

It's progress, obviously.

It's more social than it was before we spoke, but we're still working on it.

So we'll see. We'll continue to, you know, baby steps with me and Brebia.

But back in the big leagues, that's the important thing.

Yeah.

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