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Hello and welcome to episode 2378 of Effectively Wild

A FanGrafts Baseball podcast brought you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Feeling grateful for this wondrous week we've been given, this exciting grand finale,

not Downton Abbey, the grand finale, though that was great too.

But the finale to the regular season, this is super exciting.

I'm hyped.

We've talked multiple times probably this season about

whether the end of the regular season would be boring, whether it was all set in stone. We knew

who was going to be on the playoffs. What was there even to root for until the playoffs started?

And here we are. We're recording on Tuesday afternoon. So by the time people are hearing

this, there will have been games that change the playoff picture. But just big picture, this is a super

exciting conclusion to this regular season. I did not expect so much to be in doubt. So much potential

for incredible comebacks, complete collapses.

We've got it all.

We got it all.

And it's interesting, right, because I felt like we were saying the same thing over and over

again.

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