Hello, Ben, Lindberg and McRowley, come for the ball, and the banters free.

Baseball is a simulation.

It's all just one big conversation.

Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2416 of Effectively Wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2416 of Effectively Wild, a fancrafts baseball podcast brought

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I'm Meg Reilly of Fangraphs, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm doing well, and I'm realizing that I omitted something from my previous banter about the baseball in Wake Up Dead Man.

Oh.

This is, again, non-spoilery.

It's more of a content warning, really, if you're contemplating watching the movie.

The phrase Apotaco does appear in Wake Up Dead Man.

No. No, we'll never wake up deadness. No.

No, we'll never escape Apotaco.

Yep.

Yeah, it was kind of a jump scare, frankly, to hear Aco where I was at least expecting it.

Apotaco.

I wonder if it's intentional.

It's in one of the times where there's just baseball in the background.

I forget which of the scenes, but, you know, there's a baseball broadcast on and you hear a snippet of the commentary.

And someone says apotaco very clearly.

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