For the 2,000 episodes retrospectively filed, and at each new one we still collectively smile,

that's effectively wild.

That's effectively wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2490 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought

to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraps, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the ringer.

Ben, how are you?

I'm grateful that everyone has shown up to listen to us, even though Adrian Child is not here.

I know it's hard to go back

to a world without Adrian on Effectively Wilde or Jade Van Clay for that manner. We got lots of

positive feedback to 2489, and it's just nice of you all to show up. I know that the world is a little

less bright now that Adrian has left us on the podcast, to be clear. He's still just doing fine. I know that the world is a little less bright now that Adrian has left us on the podcast,

to be clear. He's still just doing fine otherwise. Yeah, although presumably still struggling

with soap dispensers. Yes, absolutely. But I did share some of listeners' feedback with him

because he seems not extremely online, which is probably why he is such a

delightful fellow or part of it. I don't know if it's a symptom or a cause, but he is not on

social media unless he lurks. And so I sent him some of the feedback, some of the rave reviews,

and he seemed heartened, he seemed pleased, He seemed chuffed. And I did share with him

some suggestions to have him back on the show, which is something that you and I had talked about.

Perhaps if the rays make the playoffs, he might want to come back to talk about that. Or some

people suggested a regular Ask Adrian questions segments. Or he could ask

us. Adrian asks questions. Right. And he just accumulates some musings, some curiosities,

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