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Hello and welcome to episode 2432 of Effectively Wild,

a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Wringer.

Ben, how are you?

Okay, I could ask how you are, but what a question

these days. Yeah. Yeah. I, um, so we're going to, we're going to do a normal show here.

It does feel weird to single out today as like a day in the horrors that needs, uh, recognizing

because candidly they've been unfurling for a while but you know before

we started recording i said to you that it feels like it is necessary to acknowledge the world and

how it stands and i was thinking about what i would want to hear from a baseball podcast in January when like the big news of the day is former twin Harrison Bader signing with the Giants.

And I think, you know, if I were living in Minnesota in the Twin Cities right now, like I might want to hear about how different baseball would be if it had a pit or if the outfielders had an extra arm growing out of their head and what kind of hair that arm would have.

And I think I'd welcome a distraction, but I think I'd also appreciate knowing that I was seen, that what ICE and DHS are doing in my community was being

seen and was being understood clearly.

So we'll get to Bader and Jose Ramirez, and we have a fun guest and a guest stat blast.

But before we get to any of that, I just wanted to say that we see you. We see you

protecting your neighbors. We see you delivering groceries. We see you trying to make sure that

folks aren't getting snatched off the street and that kids are getting home safe from school.

And we see you organizing and documenting and bearing witness to all the horror that's going on in your city in the hopes that someday the people inflicting these harms might face some kind of justice.

And that in the meantime, we actually know what happened to Renee Good and Alex Pretty and Liam Ramos and all the other people who have been

affected by this occupation. We see you doing that even though we know that that can come with

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