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Hello and welcome to episode 2468 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you? Feeling good, because I believe we've been blessed with maybe the best Boris quote ever. Oh, no. So this appeared in a piece that Brittany Droly wrote for the athletic published on Friday about the Padres sale price, which we

podcasted about on Friday.

We did.

And various industry reactions and what it means for the CPA negotiations that the Padres have

garnered this reportedly record price.

And Scott Morris is quoted a few times in the piece. And unsurprisingly, he is of

the opinion that this shows that the baseball business is robust. And we, yeah, we largely agree with

him on that, as we said. And, you know, some of the suggestion in here as well are the Padres

kind of an outlier because of what we mentioned,

that they don't have a big four competition in town. And Scott Borris downplayed that idea and

said, I would say the truth is the Padre's valuation outs the lies that baseball isn't at the most

prosperous point of its existence and some other unobjectionable, unremarkable quotes.

However, there is one more that is just quintessential Boris, and it comes at the end of a longer quote,

and I'll just read it to you. It's two sentences.

Baseball's prosperity turkey is done.

What?

The barometer says it's ready to eat.

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