Effectively Wild Episode 1160: The Podcast of Continuing Education
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and his Ringer MLB Show co-host Michael Baumann speculate about how the slow offseason will end, answer listener emails about sabermetrics and salary depression, sumo wrestling and the Hall of Fame, and baseball in winter weather, compare the careers of Omar Vizquel and Nomar Garciaparra, and analyze unorthodox new Padres relief pitcher Kazuhisa Makita. Then Michael makes a case for college baseball, and he and Ben talk to Justin Volman, founder and CEO of the Collegiate Baseball Scouting Network, about how he’s assembled and trained a nationwide network of (mostly) college-aged scouts to cover games that MLB scouts might miss.
Audio intro: The Zombies, "I Want You Back Again"
Audio interstitial: Kanye West, "School Spirit"
Audio interstitial 2: Modern Baseball, "Your Graduation"
Audio outro: Jefferson Airplane, "We Can Be Together"
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| 0:00.0 | Since you have left me, I'm all alone. |
| 0:07.6 | I need your help, I can stand on my own. |
| 0:15.2 | I want you back again. |
| 0:22.0 | I want you back again. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 1160 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:28.3 | a baseball podcast from Ben Grass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer. |
| 0:34.5 | My co-host, Jeff Sullivan, is on vacation. |
| 0:37.4 | And so I'm joined by my co-host on another baseball podcast, Michael Bellman, |
| 0:42.2 | also of the Ringer. |
| 0:43.2 | Hello, Michael. |
| 0:43.9 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.7 | Long time no talk. |
| 0:46.1 | Wow. |
| 0:46.7 | At least on a podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | We did have dinner in real life recently. |
| 0:50.5 | You did. |
| 0:51.5 | I have touched your human form and so you can assume human sustenance. |
| 0:56.3 | Yes, it a 90 degree restaurant on a 10 degree day. |
| 1:01.1 | But it was nice to see you in person. |
| 1:02.8 | But yeah, when I opened up Skype to call you, it said that we had not chatted in two months. |
| 1:07.8 | And I thought, wow, I guess that's true. |
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