Effectively Wild Episode 1152: The Pod Calling the Ketel
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter (and bantler, again) about what they’ve learned about antlers and antler-rubbed bats, the Evan Longoria trade, Derek Jeter’s town-hall event with Marlins fans, and Jeff’s breakout-player pick for 2018 (and breakout player-picking philosophy). Then they debut a new Stat Blast theme song by Jessie Barbour, do a Stat Blast about Matt Adams, Adam Lind, and a player who shouldn’t have switch hit, and answer listener emails about paying minor-league players, Jason Heyward opting out, the Yankees’ prospects with Michael Schur in their rotation, what the Braves could do with their tiny international bonus pool, and a baseball Bachelor, then follow up on their discussions of a team with no coaches and Shohei Ohtani signing shenanigans.
Audio intro: Warren Zevon, "Rub Me Raw"
Audio outro: Super Furry Animals, "Fuzzy Birds"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1152 of Effectively Wild a baseball contest from Bengrass presented |
| 0:25.3 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm Scott Lindbergh, I'm a writer for TheRinger.com. |
| 0:29.9 | Mostly I cover Star Wars these days, but I talk about baseball for a little bit with my |
| 0:34.9 | pal Jeff Sullivan of Effectively Wild a baseball contest. |
| 0:37.6 | Hello, when do you think that we became pals? |
| 0:40.2 | After a few dozen episodes, I don't know, maybe after we did the eclipse thing and actually |
| 0:47.9 | spent a little time with each other in person, maybe that helped. |
| 0:51.2 | Well I had to spend time with you before that in New York. |
| 0:53.6 | That's true, yeah that too. |
| 0:55.6 | My dog liked you, you liked my dog, so that helped. |
| 0:58.2 | I think it was a good night's bad dog. |
| 1:00.6 | I do remember one of the first time, maybe the first time I ever actually met you in person |
| 1:04.3 | was at the San Diego Winter Meeting, I believe it was. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah, and we had gone to dinner. |
| 1:09.9 | I don't know how you end up invited, but maybe you were at the other table, the Keith Law |
| 1:14.0 | table. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't remember. |
| 1:16.0 | That's right, I think. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, and then we had walked from dinner back to the hotel where we were staying. |
| 1:21.3 | And I thought, oh, what a neat opportunity to maybe talk to one of my, what I consider |
| 1:25.9 | my internet friends. |
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