Hello, Ben, Lindberg and McRowley, come for the ball,

the banters free.

Baseball is a simulation.

It's all just one big conversation.

Effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2384 of Effectively Wild,

a fan grafts baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I lived, bitch.

I'm joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, who is also alive.

How nice.

Hi, Ben.

How are you? Alive and well, in my case, I'm perfectly fine.

But I think what the people want to know is how are you both physically and maybe more importantly, emotionally?

Let's set the emotional part aside for a second because that's a longer answer.

The shorter answer is how am I physically, which is much improved.

I know I still sound a mess, but I am now speaking above a whisper, which is so exciting

for me, Ben, because for the last couple days of last week, that was decidedly not the case. I don't know

what I had been. The at-home COVID test told me it wasn't COVID. The sore throat experience

made me think that it was like the razor blade throat variation of COVID. A lovely little

subgenre of COVID we got floating around.

I don't think adults should have fevers.

You know, I don't think children should either, to be clear, I'm not trying to like say

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