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Hello and welcome to episode 2456 of Effectively Wild, a Fangravs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Doing well, but just wanted to clear the air, you know, there's been a bunch of controversy lately and just wanted to put out a statement

because I understand that with opening day a few days away, I don't want it to be a distraction.

And so you and I have talked and I apologize for what I said after the game and nothing in the

WBC takes away from the fact that we're siblings, we're teammates, we're co-hosts, your family, and we're both focused on helping the Mariners win the World Series.

Well, maybe not that last part. You are actually pretty focused on helping the Mariners win the World Series.

I mean, I have nothing to do with it, to be clear.

You're still focused on it, though.

You can't actually do anything to make it happen, but...

Yeah, to an unhealthy degree, one could argue.

Am I to understand that this means that there will not be bad blood between Cal and Randy.

Yes.

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