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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1040: Opening Day and the Post-Trampoline Prospect

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the difficulty of keeping perspective on Opening Day events, the lone disagreement between their preseason predictions, and a common reader misconception about prediction “groupthink.” Then they talk to Astros Double-A catching prospect and trampoline survivor Garrett Stubbs about his childhood trampoline injury and still-crooked finger, his dramatically different […]

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0:00.0

The tank is half full

0:05.0

I reached home and changed the space

0:18.0

I'm just the opening act

0:21.0

Hello and welcome to episode 140

0:24.0

Effectively Wild, a Van Grass baseball podcast presented by our Patreon supporters

0:29.0

My name is Ben Linger, my writer for thebringer.com

0:32.0

joined by Jeff Sullivan of Van Grass Hello

0:35.0

Hello, happy opening day Monday sort of opening day opening day which one is opening day which one counts

0:40.0

I think it's this one. Okay, I think it's worth getting excited about the not real one

0:45.0

Also because those are actual baseball games, but I think if we had to designate one as opening day

0:51.0

It makes more sense to call it today. Yeah, if you would like, I don't know the the braves and the nationals

0:57.0

And that was I think that happened years ago like the first game of the season and it was the only one

1:02.0

And I guess technically it's opening day, but nobody cares about the nationals and the braves

1:06.0

I'm not even convinced that many people in DC care about the nationals and I guess opening day is really more something for you to celebrate for your own team

1:14.0

So I guess you have to designate the day with the full slate

1:17.0

Right, does everybody's playing today or is there somebody's missing? I don't care. Whatever everybody already everybody gets their game

1:22.0

It's opening day

1:24.0

Yeah, I think some people who played already are off already to recover from that first game, the rigorous

1:31.0

Yeah, just about everyone is playing so it's always kind of hard to know what to talk about at this point in the season

1:37.0

Because it's very tempting to over react to everything just because it's the first baseball we've seen that counts in a really long time

1:45.0

And it's fun and we're excited and so if the giants blow a save or something right after signing a expensive closer

1:52.0

So they could stop blowing saves that seems interesting and significant and it's probably not in the long run really

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