How can you not be pedanted?

A stab blast will keep you distracted.

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

This is effectively why. This is effectively why? Hello, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild, this is Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2484 of Effectively Wild, a Fangrafs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Raleigh of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer, Ben.

I want to whack myself on the head with a rock.

Don't do that.

But I understand the impulse because we had a blissful few months there where we were focusing on the field mostly.

Limer beans.

Yeah, lima beans, loose bodies, thrusting in the outfield, how Bryce Harper brushes his teeth, frivolities.

And now we are once more forced to confront the CBA negotiations because they are in fact

happening.

And yeah, you know, we were able to put it on the back burner, at least the quote-unquote

trademark looming lockout there.

Not that it wasn't still looming, but it wasn't so much a front and center talking

point as it has become unsurprisingly this week. So we can get into it a little bit. I would just,

my general note, relax everyone. I know it's hard, but nothing has changed. Nothing has happened.

I know it seems like it has.

I'm seeing a lot of sky is falling sort of reactions to what has happened here.

But all that has happened is that initial offers and proposals have been exchanged and publicized.

And there's very little about the content of those proposals that is surprising in my mind. Mostly, each side proposed more or less what we would

...