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This is Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2439 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanGcrafts. Hello, Meg. Hello. We've got another preview pod for you today. They're coming fast and furious. We will be talking first. Well, I guess we'll be talking about the Brewers first. Yes, after the pirates. We'll talk about that too. Kurt Hogue from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will be here,

and he will walk us through that team in its offseason. Kennedy Landry will then follow to talk

about the Texas Rangers. Quick intro today, just a few things we should note. First, more good news

about access to MLBTV. We talked about this last week, and there were some initial details that suggested that

there would be a few hoops that people would have to jump through to sign up.

And I was pleased with low expectations just that it seemed like there would not be a price

hike, and that if you had to sign up for ESPN Unlimited, you'd get a free trial for a month.

And if you remember to cancel it, then ultimately you would not be paying more.

And, well, we'll take it.

It could be worse.

It could be better, too.

We should not forget about the fact that it could be better.

Right.

And maybe it is better because what we said last week about the sign up for ESPN and go through this to get that, that applies to new customers, which is still not ideal.

No.

But if you don't have an existing MLB TV subscription or an existing ESPN Unlimited subscription,

then yes, you have to do that little roundabout sign up.

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