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Hello and welcome to episode 2414 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

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I'm Megrelli of Fangraps and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, Ben, how are you?

Not bad. How are you?

I am tired, but I am otherwise well.

You just had a whole weekend to recover.

It was not restful.

I mean, it was full of diamond backs, but otherwise restful.

You know, it's just like there's a lot of travel this time of year.

We got stuff to do. My mom said to me on the phone the other week, she's like, you're not like a teacher. You don't have, you're not a seasonal employee. And I was like, only been doing this job for almost 10 years. But yeah, mom, that's right. That is correct. Yeah, I get that comment fairly often from friends, family.

I got it even when I was covering baseball exclusively, which I understood a bit more because

if you don't know that much about baseball, you think, okay, off season, sure, you're off

then if you're a baseball person.

But of course, that is not the case.

If you do a year-round podcast and you edit a year-round website baseball person, but of course, that is not the case. If you do a year-round podcast

and you edit a year-round website, essentially. And then also as I do other things,

but baseball, it's even less of an off-season. But yeah, I'm pretty sure close family members

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