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Hello and welcome to episode 2504 of Effectively Wild, a Fangraphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs, and I am joined remotely by Ben Limbergh of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

Quite well. Good. And very directly by Eric Long and Hagan, also of Fangraps, who is sitting next to me

in the hotel in downtown Philadelphia as we get ready to talk about the MOB draft. Eric, how are you?

I'm pretty good. You could use some deodorant, though.

We figured that it was probably easier to do this in the same place and in the same room

of the hotel.

It might mean that the audio quality is a little tinny.

So our apologies in advance to our listeners and also to producer

Shane, who assured us that this was okay. We'll see if he has conviction in that conclusion

when he gets the file. But yeah, it's a beautiful if hot day in Philadelphia.

Dude, it is, it's so hot here. Like, I walked from the hotel down 13th Street all the way to the stadium on the day that we picked up our credentials.

And it was only like 86 that day.

And by the time I got there, I was ringing wet.

I definitely have like felt some of the effects of yesterday at the futures game like I was in the sun sun for most of the game and, you know, kind of nauseous for a little while afterward. Like, it is just a different type of heat here. And it's not even going to be that much cooler, like, Wednesday. You know, it's going to be 100 here. Basically the same temperature back home in Tempe. So, yeah, you know, it's just one of those

things, like a fan graft tradition of trying to get out of Arizona in the middle of the summer and

go do other stuff. And he just sort of follows us around. So here we are. We're baking. Or I guess,

no, this is more like, what is where it's more marinating steaming

it yeah we're in a we're in a soup well you know this heat well this is your neck of the woods

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