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Hello and welcome to episode 2435 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. Hello. You know, I don't say this often, but I have to hand it to MLB owners. Mm. Because they have done a decent job of staying out of the Epstein files. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Ben. Bet you didn't see that coming, but it's true.

You know, I should have.

I should have seen it coming because what other circumstance would we possibly...

What would it take to make me hand it to them?

I have handed it to them other than...

Not being implicated with Epstein.

Yeah, they aren't in there, evidently.

I mean, I haven't personally perused the millions of files released in the latest batch,

but there is a handy-dandy aggregator at front office sports that has headline all the sports figures in the latest Epstein emails.

And they're updating it as others come to light. And, you know, not a lot of baseball in there, I have to say. There's a

stray Sammy Sosa mention. Yeah. Because Sammy Sosa evidently attended a party in the Hamptons

20 years or so ago that was attended by

Epstein and Donald Trump. But beyond that, there are some baseball adjacent figures, one of

the sports figures who was implicated in this latest release is Casey Wasserman, who is best

known for being the chair of the organizing committee for the

LA Olympics, but also founded and is the CEO of the Wasserman agency that represents a lot of

athletes and also baseball players. But really, like a lot of other sports owners and prominent

...