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Hello and welcome to episode 2271 of Effectively Wild at Baseball Podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs, and I guess both of us and probably a lot of our listeners are in sort of a state of removed

mourning, by which I mean morning for a public figure, an entertainer, someone you didn't know

personally.

And so maybe it's not the same kind of acute mourning that you feel for a member of your

family or a close friend, let's say there's a

parasycial element to it. But it's nonetheless pretty painful. And I am talking about the great

director, David Lynch. And because this is a baseball podcast, I'm talking about the great

broadcaster, Bob Euker. And both died on Thursday, Lynch at 78,

yuk at 90. I want to talk about another baseball non-enginearian. We just lost this week a little

later. But those two, hearing about that back to back, that is tough. I know Lynch's work is pretty important to you.

And feel free to say whatever you want to say.

But if people want to hear you talking about Lynch at length, we did do a bonus episode last April, episode 30, bonus episode 30, where we each chose our top five favorite

artists in any medium of all time. And one of your picks was David Lynch. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know,

man. I know that every generation, like every generation deals with this, right?

Every generation has voices that are important, and it's not to say that like only elder millennials appreciated David Lynch, but, you know, we all have our artists and voices.

And it's, I don't know, it's interesting to think about Euker and Lynch dying on the same day. I don't know if they ever crossed paths. I guess they could have, you know, voices in all our understandings of that word. You know, every generation like has them and then loses them. And so I don't know that we can really like lay claim to something

particularly unique or aberrant in the loss, but it's our first time being this age.

And it sure feels like a lot of the people who have defined and shaped the way that we think of the world and have

sort of kept us company as we journey through it are starting to pass.

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