Effectively Wild Episode 1153: Johnny on the Spot
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the perplexing potential end to Manny Machado trade rumors, then bring on former major leaguer and current fun-fact star/national treasure Johnny O’Brien to discuss his life and career with the Pirates, Cardinals, and Braves in the 1950s, becoming a reluctant two-way player (and experiencing immediate, surprising success), his signing by Branch Rickey, being a “bonus baby” and skipping the minor leagues, playing in the Harvey Haddix game, forming half of the only double-play duo of twins in MLB history, playing without his twin for the first time, playing for both great and terrible teams and both with and against baseball legends, being buddies with Bing Crosby, and more.
Audio intro: The Raveonettes, "The Truth About Johnny"
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Audio outro: Chuck Berry, "Bye Bye Johnny"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1153 of Effective New Wildly fan graphs. |
| 0:23.9 | Baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:26.8 | I am Jeff Sullivan with fan graphs joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of Star Wars. |
| 0:31.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:32.8 | I am doing very well. |
| 0:34.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:35.0 | How are you? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing just great. |
| 0:37.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:38.0 | There's any baseball news. |
| 0:39.4 | We need to discuss right now. |
| 0:40.4 | Yonder Ralanzo signed with the Indians, which, okay. |
| 0:43.0 | But there is at least the idea that Mani Machado now it seems like will not be traded by |
| 0:47.6 | the Orioles. |
| 0:48.6 | The Orioles are looking. |
| 0:49.6 | We're thinking about trading Machado with one year left on his contract because they're |
| 0:53.2 | going to be bad, most likely, probably worse now with Zach Britain injured for a chunk |
| 0:57.3 | of the year. |
| 0:58.3 | But I'm looking at an article here by Rock Cabotco, written or at least published Thursday |
| 1:03.4 | morning at 6 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:05.4 | And it's talking about some talks between the Orioles and the Cubs. |
| 1:10.1 | And if I could just read a couple of lines here, there's one quote. |
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