Effectively Wild Episode 1161: Dave Cameron’s Goodbye to Blogging
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and outgoing FanGraphs Managing Editor Dave Cameron review Dave’s decision to retire from writing to take a job as an analyst in the San Diego Padres’ front office, discussing his personal and professional past and future and the past, present, and future of public and private baseball analysis.
Audio intro: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (Feat. Stevie Nicks), "Insider"
Audio outro: Elvis Presley, "Padre"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1161 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fancrafts. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer and we've been talking a lot lately on the show about new jobs |
| 0:38.3 | and career changes and that trend will continue today. In Jeff Sullivan's absence, I am joined by Jeff's |
| 0:45.3 | boss, except that by the time Jeff gets back from vacation, my guest is not going to be his boss anymore. |
| 0:51.7 | That guest is Dave Cameron, who is for the moment the managing editor of Fancrafts, but at the same |
| 0:58.3 | instant that this podcast was published, Dave announced to the world that he is about to change his |
| 1:03.4 | business card, assuming he had a business card before I reached his Fancrafts. I've been asking |
| 1:08.8 | Appleman for like 10 years to give me business cards and I think like by the time he gets around |
| 1:12.8 | to doing them, they won't be a thing anymore. Yeah, well you no longer need a Fancrafts |
| 1:16.8 | business card. You're about to have another one, so tell the people what your new business card will |
| 1:21.9 | say. That's right. I'm going to be an analyst, so they're senior analysts. I don't think we've |
| 1:25.9 | actually decided on a title yet. I'm going to work for the San Diego Padres and their research |
| 1:30.0 | and development department and help them kind of build one. So yeah, I'm going to be a AJ |
| 1:35.2 | Proller's one of his stat guys. I guess. Yeah, I mean, that's what the business card will say. |
| 1:39.8 | AJ Proller's stat guys. This is exciting. This is momentous, obviously, for the internet, for the |
| 1:46.4 | the baseball internet, since you've been one of the leading lights of that community for many years |
| 1:52.8 | now and maybe we can talk about that. But yeah, I want to get into obviously how this came about |
| 1:58.0 | and what you'll be doing. I suppose since this is a FanGress podcast before we get to what this |
| 2:04.1 | means for you in the Padres, you want to tell people what this means for the site aside from |
| 2:08.8 | the fact that it will no longer feature camera content. Yeah, so we put up a post last week where |
| 2:14.2 | we are like now hiring full-time writer. We just didn't tell anyone that was my job that we |
| 2:18.0 | were posting and we kind of kept that to ourselves. So yeah, I'm going to be stepping down as |
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