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Hello and welcome to episode 2465 of Effectively Wild,

a baseball podcast from Fangraphs, presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs.

Hello, Meg.

Hello.

So last time we potted, you called for the ritual sacrifice of Mariners' mascot, Humpty. Hello. So last time we potted, you called for the ritual sacrifice of Mariner's mascot Humpy.

And you kind of got your way.

Kind of got my wish.

It wasn't Wicker Man style.

Hapsies.

Humpy got eaten by a bear, or at least a bear attempted to eat Humpty on Humpty's plush giveaway night, no less.

I just want everyone to, like, think about the sentence that you just said.

And, like, think about trying to explain that moment to someone who doesn't have any.

I like, someone stumbles upon our podcast. First of all, hi. Why are you here? You know, welcome. Welcome. Welcome. But also, how did you find your way here? What weird turn in the, in the iTunes starts. Legit, it's not even iTunes anymore, is it yeah they they were like look uh we broke the each yearo statue and we're all out of other ideas so sorry Humpy you must be at least

temporarily eaten i love how mascots are like characters in an old comic book where you're like,

yeah, you'll be back soon. Don't worry about it.

He was on the verge of winning the salmon run and then was eaten by a bear, sadly.

But that is the lot of a lot of salmon. So natural predator. That's what happens.

Yeah, that is famously one of the things

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