Does baseball look the same to you as it does to me?

When we look at baseball, how much do we see?

Well, the curve balls bend and the home runs fly.

More to the game that meets the eye To get the stats compiled and the stories filed

Fans on the internet might get riled

But we can break it down on Effectively Wild

Hello and welcome to episode 2464 of Effectively Wild

A FanGrasse Baseball brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

Hello, Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you? I'm doing okay. How are you feeling about your mariners in the wake of not only our discussion last time about their offensive outage, but now the ill

omen of unveiling an Eichiro statue with a broken bat.

Doesn't seem to bode well.

Okay, so like on the one hand.

Okay, imagine for a second I have three hands because I have a tripartite structure to this comment.

On the one hand, I know as like a rational person.

The curses aren't real.

They're not real.

That's not real.

There might be many an unexplained phenomenon in the world.

But I feel on pretty solid ground about curses not being real. So that's like the rational

part of my brain, you know, the part of my brain that runs pangraphs, thankfully. On the other

secondhand, you know, I do worry that we need to ritualistically sacrifice Humphi

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