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Hello and welcome to episode 2401 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg.

Oh, hello.

We talk a lot about corny Scott Boris, or as baseball prospectus dubbed him on Friday,

borsh belt Boris.

But we don't talk enough about based Boris, because often, I think, I agree with him when

it comes to his actual substantive thoughts on the game,

as opposed to his quippy, punny wordplay about his clients. So you get the Borschtel, Boris. That's hard to say.

And that's always entertaining. But you could say that maybe he's just trying to attract our attention to his actual substantial thoughts about the game,

about which I usually agree with him, not in all cases.

Every now and then he'll come out and say there should be a neutral site world series or something.

And I say, Scott, what are you talking about?

But I'm with him on this one.

He, I think, compared to pretty much everyone else in

baseball, has come out and been pretty clear and firm about the prop betting. And he talked about

this this week, too. He said that prop bets should be entirely banned. He said, if a guy throws a

damn pitch in the dirt, there's going to be an

integrity question about that. You can't have that. And he said that MLB's step to limit the

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