How can you not be pedanted?

A stablast will keep you distracted.

It's a long slog to death, but the shore to make you smile.

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Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2462 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs Baseball podcast brought

you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I'm joined as often, not as always, but basically as always,

but Ben Lemberger the Ringer. Ben, how are you? Yeah, barring a baby, pretty much always. Yeah,

pretty much always. Well, I'm doing well. Yeah. It's nice to hear your voice again. Yeah. Pretty much always. Well, I'm doing well.

Yeah.

It's nice to hear your voice again.

Yeah.

And because you were traveling a bit and we frontloaded our recording schedule, I, I hesitated to say it's been a while since we've spoken because I know that that sometimes, yeah, causes you to break into song.

But it has been some time by effectively wild standards.

So we have much to discuss and catch up on.

And I thought maybe next time we could do a check-in on some teams that are tanking their playoff odds already.

Because it will have been two weeks since opening day.

Then we'll give them a couple

days to get their acts together. And for teams that are doing well to come back to Earth a bit,

but we still have big developments to discuss. We have to get into the promotion of Connor

Griffin, of course. We have to talk about the heroics of Joe Adele. But I wanted to lead with some big news out of Kansas City, which was Carter Jensen overslept. This was a scandal. Carter Jensen, young Royals catcher. He overslept and he showed up late and he was very apologetic and he's off to a fantastic start

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