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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1043: The More Interesting Tim Tebow Precedent

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Mets’ starting rotation, a Keon Broxton sighting, and the five WAR leaders vs. the five WAR trailers, then talk to Rob Neyer about his oral history of Michael Jordan’s baseball career, how good Jordan was and could have been, the ways in which the Jordan experiment is […]

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0:00.0

I say, hey, just be bold, time to be sense, I come back together, my head, I say it's

0:09.1

how to be bold, just be bold, time to be sense, I come back together, my head, I say it's

0:15.8

how to be bold, just be bold, time to be sense, I come back.

0:18.4

Hello and welcome to Episode 143 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast presented by Fingrass

0:25.7

and our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Limpberg of the Ringer, joined by just a little bit

0:30.7

of thank-ass hello.

0:31.7

Hi, so we are going to talk a little bit later to Rob Nyer, who will be also joining us

0:38.2

at our August event with the Salem Kaiser Volcanoes for the Eclipse Fest, but we're going to

0:44.3

talk to him soon about Michael Jordan's 1994 attempt to be a baseball player kind of in

0:50.4

relation to Tim Tebow without actually talking about Tebow all that much.

0:54.5

Just a little bit of quick banter before we get there, you got something you want to

0:58.3

bring up?

0:59.3

Yeah, so real quick, I guess the mets are fascinating, as usual, ever since they've developed all

1:04.3

these pictures and a couple of years ago, pretty much everything went right with the

1:07.5

pitching staff and they tried to make it to the World Series.

1:10.7

In fact, they did make it to the World Series, so they were a very successful one that

1:14.7

regard and last year things went a little more awry and so anyway, the story with the

1:19.0

mets, the entirely predictable, but entirely justified story with the mets is that they

1:23.4

will go as far as the health of their pitching staff can take them.

1:26.2

I think we agree on that.

1:28.0

Perfect, I agree.

1:29.0

So we move on.

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