Effectively Wild Episode 1123: Judgment Calls

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Yellowstone-explosion sensationalism and discuss the improbability of the Cubs’ 277-minute NLDS Game 5 victory over the Nationals, the game’s umpiring oddities and errors, the Nationals’ and Cubs’ reputations and legacies in the wake of the series, and what to do about instant replay and slides. Audio intro: Thom Yorke, […]

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0:00.0	I'll have a ride
0:04.0	To intervene
0:08.0	To intervene
0:12.0	I don't have a ride
0:16.0	To intervene
0:20.0	I don't have a ride
0:26.0	To intervene
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1123 of Dispiriting Washington National's Post-Mortem.
0:35.9	I am Jeff Sullivan of Fangrefs Joint as always by Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer.
0:40.1	I just say that the post-mortem is involuntarily brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:45.0	who are not necessarily in this for the crushing despair that is being a fan of the nationals.
0:50.1	Now before I'm sure everybody who's listening to this, I'm sure 60% of the people listening
0:54.6	to this want to hear us talk about the nationals.
0:57.3	The Cubs on Thursday night.
0:59.1	I was having something I would like to discuss that has nothing at all to do with that beforehand.
1:03.3	For a little background, every so often this has happened, I'd say maybe three times.
1:08.2	Maybe three times this year I have been in Gmail and Ben has sent me a message that is linking to
1:13.4	maybe the latest Yellowstone Supervolcano sensationals.
1:17.4	And this comes up fairly often. There was an article that Ben sent me yesterday in USA today.
1:23.8	There were several of these articles, but USA today is the one that he sent me.
1:26.5	And the headline, this is by Matthew Debel, the headline reads Yellowstone Supervolcano,
1:30.5	may blow sooner than thought, M-Dash, and could wipe out life on the planet.
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