Effectively Wild Episode 1055: A Scorecard, a Save, and a Home-Run Reveal
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan talk to 18-year-old Effectively Wild listener/pitcher Connor Watrous about his heroic accomplishment of keeping score at an 18-inning Cubs-Yankees game, banter about a besieged closer and a Matt Albers milestone, and discuss the implications of a new development in the high-home-run-rate mystery.
Audio intro: Alice Cooper, "I’m Eighteen"
Audio interstitial: Sloan, "A Long Time Coming"
Audio outro: Talking Heads, "Puzzlin’ Evidence"
Link to Connor’s 18-inning scorecard
Link to Ben’s home-run-rate article
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| 0:00.0 | I'm in pain and I don't know what I want |
| 0:05.0 | In sin, I just don't know what I want |
| 0:10.0 | In sin, I gotta get away |
| 0:16.0 | I've gotta get out of this place |
| 0:20.0 | I'll go running and out of space again |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1555 |
| 0:29.0 | of Effectively Wild A baseball podcast |
| 0:31.0 | from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:34.0 | My name is Ben Lindbergh and we're writer for TheRinger.com |
| 0:37.0 | joined as always by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs |
| 0:40.0 | Hello Jeff, hello, we're gonna banter a bit about multiple topics |
| 0:44.0 | then we'll have a real topic later on in the show |
| 0:46.0 | they're all real, I don't want to denigrate any of our topics |
| 0:49.0 | they're all important and special |
| 0:51.0 | but we're gonna have a little help with our first banter topic |
| 0:54.0 | we are joined now by Effectively Wild Listener |
| 0:57.0 | his name is Connor Watchress |
| 0:59.0 | and if you are a member of the Facebook group |
| 1:02.0 | you've probably already seen his post |
| 1:04.0 | Connor is an 18 year old high school student for now |
| 1:07.0 | although he is soon to be a University of Chicago student |
| 1:11.0 | and pitcher there so he's a player also |
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