Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2396 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Well, I'm already receiving press releases about which players have opted out of contracts and have declared for free agency.

Lots of news coming across the wire.

I'm not ready for that yet.

I'm not in off-season mode.

I am looking forward to reveling today with you about what we saw this weekend.

I am forcibly in off-season mode, and I envy your peace, but I am happy to relive the thrill of Game 7 with you because what a game it was.

What a game. What a series. What a postseason. If you were expecting some contrarian take from Effectively wild as opposed to just all the people

marveling at what we saw over the past couple days. No, that's not what you're going to get

from us. I don't think. I think we're probably going to marvel as well. It really was something.

It really was just among the best baseball spectating experiences of my life. And I can say that as someone who

had no direct stake in anything other than figuring out what my story was going to be about

on Saturday night, which I really could not decide in advance, didn't really get any head start

on that gamer because everything was up in the air until basically the last second.

Yeah. And, you know, there were so many compelling potential narratives, but I, it was hard.

That's part of why I was obsolete editing, you know. It was tricky to rain it in.

But yeah, really a sort of tale of multiple games, right?

It felt like it contained a number of different contests that ended up being sort of

discreet from one another.

And also one that, like, showcased some of the things that got these teams where they

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