Hello and welcome to episode 2440 of Effectively Wild

Hello and welcome to episode 2440 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangrass, and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm okay.

How are your handmade bones doing?

Dude, we got to ban all these little bird bones, you know?

Like, can we do some sort of, like, fast evolution machine to, like, get us past that?

I imagine this is in X-Men somewhere, right?

Where you just, like, rapidly mutate everybody so that they don't have...

Do you want them to be more pliable or less?

I don't know.

I'll leave that to the scientists.

But at this juncture, I can't say I'm a fan of the tiny bird bones.

I want the tiny bird bones to take a hike.

Yeah.

We could just evolve past the need for them.

They could be like our past prehensile tails.

They could be like our coxics or something.

There's still a remnant, an appendix.

Maybe an appendix does something, but mostly you forget about the appendix until something

goes wrong with it, which much the same with hemates.

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