Yahoo Sports has been a leader in fantasy sports for nearly two decades and it's great to see that they recently introduced fair play for daily fantasy.

Yahoo is helping to level the playing field for sports fans with strict contest entry limits and veteran labels for highly experienced players so you know who you're playing against.

Yahoo Sports is offering our listeners a special offer.

Go to the Yahoo Fantasy app or visit Yahoo.com slash daily fantasy and use promo code ringer that's RIN, GER with your next deposit to receive a one-time $50 deposit that is earned over time as you play.

Plus first time depositors will receive a $10 credit to enter contests.

So remember that's promo code ringer on Yahoo Sports daily fantasy.

Before we get started I also wanted to mention that the ringer now has merch.

Go to bitley.com slash ringer merch where you can find shirts and hoodies.

A portion of the proceeds from each purchase will benefit charity water, a nonprofit organization that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Again go now to bitly.com slash ringer merch.

Hello and welcome to the ringer MLB show.

My name is Ben Lindbergh and I'm a staff writer for the ringer.com.

I'm joined by fellow ringer writer Michael Bauman.

Hello Michael.

Hello.

Way back on the first episode of this podcast our boss Bill Simmons alluded to some mystery man who would be coming on to co-host the show at some point in the future and I suppose he meant me.

So I am the podcaster that was promised and now I've got my first Game of Thrones reference out of the way in the first 20 seconds of my career at the ringer which I think was in my contract somewhere.

Like Michael I'm a former writer for Grantland and baseball perspectives so we've known each other and worked together for a while and I freely enjoyed what you and Mal and everyone else had done for the first 10 episodes so thanks for letting me tag in.

Yeah we've been waiting for the ringer to make that big trade deadline acquisition and you are our true Palmer ants.

Alright well they didn't really have to give up and Anderson that's been a little bit more so it worked out well.

Okay we have a two part podcast for you today later in the show Michael and I are going to discuss whether baseball movies are having a moment.

There's been an extended drought since the golden age of baseball movies but there have been a few released already in 2016 and we just watched them so we're going to talk about what makes a good baseball movie and whether any of the recent entries in the genre comes close to the pantheon.

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