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Hi, everybody.
Welcome.
I'm Joe Posnansky here with Molly Knight.
And baseball season is back and we're talking baseball.
Hi, Molly.
Hi.
It's crazy.
We've been.
Games have been happening for about a week now and it feels like there's more going on than usual.
Yes.
And I think it's not like a recency bias thing.
I do think all these rule changes are like.
And then I guess the WBC and different injuries and there's just a lot happening right there.
Feels like there's a lot happening.
I do think the rule changes are a huge part.
Obviously, everybody's trying to get used to them.
We are going to spend the bulk of this podcast here talking about the rule changes and.
And what we think of them and how they're going to impact the game.
But yeah, there have also been a couple of pretty substantial injuries, particularly one involving the Dodgers that I know we will talk about at some length.
And that the WBC feels really epic this year.