Data in the Dugout

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On The Gist, the first Democratic primary debate is about to start. In the interview, Ben Lindbergh is a staff writer at the Ringer, host of the Effectively Wild podcast, and author of the new book The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players. He's here to talk America's favorite pastime, what baseball is like in a post-Moneyball era, and if data is making the game less interesting to watch. In the Spiel, George Will weighs in on the state of baseball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may have explicit content and also has this implicit request.
0:04.7	If you follow me on Twitter, why not follow the gist at SlateGist.
0:14.1	It's Wednesday June 26th, 2019, from Slate It's the gist of Mike Pesca.
0:20.2	You know, I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it, I don't want to get sucked into the siren song.
0:25.5	10 candidates will enter, 10 will leave, and the next day 10 more will enter, but nine will leave.
0:32.6	Oh wait, no, I forgot to count.
0:34.1	Molten thought it was swallwell.
0:37.4	Ah, yes, the morass in Miami, the blah, blah, rama near a little Havana, the eight minute 45 seconds per candidate, which will determine the presidency.
0:50.0	You realize a full 45 or 50 minutes may lapse between moments of Tim Ryan talking, sharing his thoughts, and why he Tim Ryan is the right person to lead this country, and also his thoughts inevitably complaining that he needs more time to explain why he Tim Ryan is the best person to lead this country.
1:13.6	Yes, it's wine and wait in the sunshine.
1:15.6	Yes, it's wine and wait in the sunshine state, and it's all going down tonight, 9 p.m. 8, 7, Central and Mountain, or as I call it, Klobuchar and Hickenlooper.
1:26.1	What can be learned in this format with this many people without tonight, without Biden, Bernie, Buttigieg, or Bennett?
1:35.9	Okay, forget that it works for the alliteration, but it doesn't work to make the point with that Biden, Bernie, Buttigieg, or Kamala Harris.
1:43.4	It's a weird setup.
1:44.9	There are five candidates who are polling in any sort of statistically significant way.
1:52.4	And Elizabeth Warren, alone among the five, will be isolated up on the stage tonight, whereas the other four get to go after each other tomorrow.
2:00.9	What's Elizabeth Warren going to do, score a big point off, Tulsi Gabbard?
2:05.8	I think this, by the way, will be John Delaney's strategy.
2:08.8	His only way forward will be just to immediately come out and say, my name is John Delaney.
2:14.5	I'm running for president with one message, Tulsi Gabbard's a little nuts.
2:18.3	Thank you. She likes Assad. Thank you. Good night.
2:21.5	In some quarters, they're banking on the Booker Bounce.
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