Effectively Wild Episode 1128: Two for Game 2
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the thrills, surprises, and unlikely heroes of World Series Game 2, the ongoing home-run barrage this October, and where the World Series stands, then discuss the Yankees’ decision not to bring back Joe Girardi and whether we’ve learned anything from this month’s managerial moves before returning one more time to a controversial call from NLDS Game 5.
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| 0:00.0 | I am in the door |
| 0:07.5 | You are all alone |
| 0:15.0 | Never seen something like this before |
| 0:20.0 | You are proud |
| 0:23.5 | What was there |
| 0:27.0 | You are proud |
| 0:30.5 | Gotta go man |
| 0:33.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 11.28 of Effectively Wild A Baseball Podcast |
| 0:39.0 | from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.5 | I am Ben Lindbergh, writer for the Ringer, joined by Chef Sullivan of FanGraphs Hello |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, okay |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, we are in a weird position today of having to talk about Game 2 |
| 0:55.0 | which is not in position |
| 0:57.0 | There was so much to talk about in Game 2 except the weird thing is that we've already talked about Game 2 for about 4 and a half hours |
| 1:04.0 | You and I on a Patreon stream that we did exclusively for some of our Patreon supporters during the game on Wednesday night |
| 1:15.0 | So we talked throughout the entire thing from first pitch to last |
| 1:19.0 | So we have covered it very thoroughly and yet most of the people listening to this podcast have not heard any of that |
| 1:26.0 | So we have to talk about it again in some form |
| 1:31.0 | And I guess now we have a little more perspective on it |
| 1:35.0 | So we can talk about it in a different way than we did in the moment |
| 1:38.0 | Which was mostly what is happening, how is this still going? |
| 1:42.0 | Are we still talking? Is this game still happening? |
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