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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1098: Pham is Fam

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about their upcoming eclipse event, Jered Weaver’s retirement, a Tommy Pham tweet, and two recent examples of unorthodox positioning, then follow up on player nicknames, odd fields, two-touch fielding, and Khris Davis’s arm and, finally, answer listener emails about the Indians’ record and run differential, the Giants’ disaster season, […]

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0:00.0

You sweet to me, diabetes, peace treaties, Rex Vista champions, they need weedies,

0:05.6

Carrying the torch, the Olympic four rings, I'm a javelin' the road from the crowning of the king.

0:11.0

Hello and welcome to episode 190 East,

0:14.5

of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGrafts, presented by our Patreon supporters,

0:19.5

I am Dan Limberg of The Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of FanGrafts.

0:23.6

Hello. Hi.

0:24.6

I've been out of commission for the last few days in the wilderness with wonky internet,

0:29.1

but a lot has happened, and so I've accumulated some banter topics, we're gonna do emails,

0:34.2

but briefly before we get to that, we should say a word or two about our eclipse event,

0:39.0

which is coming up on Monday, and this will apply to only a very small minority of listeners,

0:44.9

but we're gonna make you all listen to it anyway.

0:47.4

So we have this eclipse event coming up on Monday in Salem Kaiser, Oregon,

0:51.4

at the total eclipse of the park event that the Salem Kaiser volcanoes are holding.

0:56.4

So if you are coming to this event, start early, leave now, probably, if you wanna get there,

1:03.4

because you and I and Sam Miller, who is also attending, we are ostensibly staying at your house on Sunday night,

1:10.6

but not literally staying at your house on Sunday night,

1:13.0

because in order to get to the park, which is about an hour away from your place in Portland,

1:18.6

we are going to leave like nine hours earlier or something,

1:22.0

so we're gonna leave it like midnight the night before or morning of,

1:26.1

however you define midnight as AM or PM, I'm an AM guy,

1:29.8

we're gonna leave at midnight to get there at 9 AM or whatever we're gonna get there.

1:33.8

So we're hoping that will work, and if you have tickets and are wondering where to get them,

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