It's Effectively Wild, it's Effectively Wild, with then and back in Bag rally.

Hello and welcome to episode 2412 of Effectively Wild, a fangraphs baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm a rally of Fangraphs and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm relieved that we have some stuff to talk about because we ended our last episode with me

prodding you to tell teams to do something.

Right.

Because we had to record the day after our preceding episode.

Sometimes if enough news is not accrued in the interim can be a scramble.

We have to dig deep.

But we don't have to dig as deep as I feared because some news has happened as we record here on Tuesday afternoon.

And of course, I refer to one of the most powerful figures in baseball, entertaining the assembled writers with his latest puns.

Yes, Scott Boris set up his little backdrop, and he delighted everyone with his latest puns. Yes, Scott Boris set up his little backdrop and he delighted everyone

with his latest lines. And I assumed that you were not able to attend the Boris Scrum.

I was not. Yeah, it was a busy time because some other agencies stole Boris's thunder

a bit by leaking news or news having happened while Boris was up there.

The spotlight is on him. And then the news comes out that the Phillies have re-signed Kyle Schwerber.

Yes.

The Dodgers have signed in with Diaz. And suddenly probably people had to flock elsewhere to file stories while Scott was still

standing there doing his spiel but we will give him his due here as we always must yeah yeah

you had to scramble I assume to assign some posts or or get some people who pre-wrote posts

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