Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild, Effectively Wild.

Effectively Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2272 of Effectively Wild, a Fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

I'm Meg Rowley of Fangraphs and I am joined by Ben Lindberg of the Ringer.

Ben, how are you?

Well, you delivered that intro in such practiced fashion.

The way that you said 2272, it almost sounded as if you had done this specific intro before.

But that can't have happened.

No.

This is the first time we have talked today.

Yeah.

Fancy meeting you here.

This is take two of the intro to Effectively Wild episode 2272.

The highlights of the original intro, which maybe I'll send out as an

outtake to our Patreon supporters, included us predicting that Roki Sasaki would sign immediately after

we recorded the intro to the episode, lamenting that that would happen, but residing ourselves

to that fact because we had waited as long as we thought we reasonably could.

We also discussed the Blue Jays.

We discussed the fact that we hoped that they weren't getting their hopes up too high.

They're poor fans who've been through so much.

You wavered very briefly on whether Roki Sasaki actually

would sign.

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