I wanna survive, but you better learn how to live

You better teach me no reason to play by all

Teach me, I'll come get anywhere

Teach me, and you can't quit

Don't do the rules, then I'll fight you

Don't fall the foothold, then you'll be a fool

Don't know what's bad, I can't run you to play

Good morning and welcome to episode 883 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Ben Lindbergh of 538, joined by Sen Miller of baseball perspective

Hello, howdy

Gonna do some PET talk today

Not something that comes up that often on this podcast, but we're gonna fit it all into one episode

And we're gonna talk to someone who's been doing a lot of reporting on it lately

For years, TJ Quinn, who is an investigative reporter for ESPN

You often see him on outside the lines

Hello TJ, hello guys

So I don't know if I would call it a wave of PET suspensions

That seems like it might be overstating it, but I guess we could call it a string of suspensions

I think there have been seven major leaders who have violated the joint drug agreement and been suspended so far this season

Which is the most in kind of a concentrated period since biogenesis

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