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Good morning, and welcome to episode 96 of effectively wild

The daily podcast from baseball prospectus. I'm Sam Miller in Long Beach back in New York, New York is

Benlinburg who just arrived an hour ago

From Nashville, Tennessee where he was at the

Winter meetings of Major League Baseball Ben is I imagine quite tired. It's probably going to be a shorter podcast than usual

Which is saying something

So Ben yes, I guess the

Mike the thing that I'm curious about I've never been to these these are your first yes

So when a when a when a when a move happens or even really when a rumor happens

You know twitter explodes and everybody kind of

It seems to me that for the most part

I think that there is kind of a it consensus forms quickly about whether this is a move that the public likes or the public doesn't and then from there

Different layers of snark and analysis flow out of it

Where you are does the same sort of thing happen? I mean when when a player sign

Is

Is there a sort of a mood that is identifiable that you can identify that is kind of the consensus

Or does everybody just kind of bury themselves into a computer? Yeah, it's it's kind of a localized reaction wherever you are

um, and I apologize in advance if I repeat things that I said on

Ian Miller and Riley Breckenridge's podcast or broadcast yesterday because they had me on to talk about the winter

Meetings and I imagine there's quite a bit of overlap between our podcast audiences

Yeah, it's I mean for the bulk of the day if you're

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