Effectively Wild Episode 2286: Season Preview Series: Mariners and Reds

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the start of spring training games, the charms of Tigers reliever John Brebbia, whether MLB’s uniform pants were always semi-transparent, and Shohei Ohtani’s parallel parking skills. Then they preview the 2025 Seattle Mariners (27:37) with Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times, and the 2025 Cincinnati Reds (1:12:53) with The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans.

Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial 1: Guy Russo, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio interstitial 2: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to Brebbia video
Link to Buffalo/buffalo sentence
Link to Brebbia’s college page
Link to Brebbia article 1
Link to Brebbia article 2
Link to Mandela effect wiki
Link to Ohtani video
Link to offseason spending
Link to FG payrolls page
Link to Mariners depth chart
Link to Mariners offseason tracker
Link to Ryan’s author archive
Link to Petriello on T-Mobile
Link to Reds depth chart
Link to Reds offseason tracker
Link to C. Trent’s author archive
Link to EW gift subscriptions

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