Hello and welcome to be

Hello and welcome to episode 2263 of Effectively Wild

A Baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, not joined by Meg Raleigh of

Fangraph. She's away for one more episode. She'll be back next time. But I am happy to be

joined by two guests who are filling in for Meg, Lindsay Adler, and Hannah Kaiser,

who have been Deadspin colleagues in the past, and you may remember them more recently for their work at the Athletic and the Wall Street Journal in Lindsay's case and Yahoo Sports in Hannah's case.

And you've both been on the podcast before. People know you. Hello. Thanks for coming on.

Hello. Hello, Ben. Happy holidays. Thank you. Same to you.

And Lindsay is joining us from Bogota, Columbia.

There was some confusion on our most recent episode between Columbia and Columbia.

I didn't put the proper Columbia on it.

And so Michael Bamman thought I was saying Columbia.

And there was briefly confusion.

But you are in Bogota. That probably clears things up where you informed me before we started recording that the altitude is high, close to 9,000 feet. So you are taking a break in podcasting. Hopefully you will not be breathless at any point during this episode.

I can't promise it, but I am doing my best to hydrate for sure.

Excellent.

And Hannah is in her childhood home.

I am not in my childhood home, but in my mother's house, which is sort of similar, I guess. So we're all coming from different places.

I guess Lindsay's is the most exciting, and I especially appreciate someone taking time out

of their day while they're in Columbia to join us on Effectively Wild.

And we've got a lot of plans today with Hannah.

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