Hello and welcome to episode 2246 of Effectively Wild, a fan

podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs with a cold, and I'm joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, also Willa Cold.

Ben, how you doing?

You sound more or less like yourself right now, I would say.

I'm on the back half, for sure.

Yeah, I'm still in the middle of it, so people will probably be overly familiar with my phlegm and my mucus by the end of this episode.

Apologies. I'm trying to keep it to a minimum, but it's that time of year.

Yeah, I mean, our Patreon supporters are very familiar with your colon, so what's a little phlegm between friends after that?

Exactly. Yeah, we're all, we're all

very intimately acquainted at this point. Another thing that comes around roughly this time of

year is the holidays, and we keep cranking out pods, but sometimes we have done some sort of

special series or something, something that we can maybe

bank a little earlier to make it easier on us and producer Shane. And five years ago, I did a series

of episodes that I dubbed the multi-sport Sabremetrics Exchange, where I talked to analysts from

various other sports about the state of Sabermetrics in their sports,

and that was fun.

Could probably use an update, but we were thinking something similar that we might pursue

this year around the Christmas New Year's period would be a series of conversations

about baseball jobs, maybe unsung baseball jobs of some sort,

sort of under the radar baseball jobs that still would be kind of cool to hear about.

And so I'm just throwing this out there to the listeners to suggest jobs that they would want to hear more about so that we can maybe arrange interviews of that sort.

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