Effectively Wild Episode 1177: Season Preview Series: Cubs and Padres
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Orioles’ Andrew Cashner signing, recent “super-teams” that missed the playoffs, and Marcus Stroman’s arbitration tweets, then preview the 2018 Cubs (16:27) with The Athletic Chicago’s Sahadev Sharma, and the 2018 Padres (46:43) with The Athletic San Diego’s Dennis Lin.
Audio intro: The Thrills, "Nothing Changes Around Here"
Audio interstitial 1: Neil Young, "Say Hello to Chicago"
Audio interstitial 2: Passion Pit, "Better Things"
Audio outro: Math and Physics Club, "Weekends Away"
Link to Ben’s arbitration research
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I love and change is right |
| 0:02.0 | Hey |
| 0:03.0 | I love and change is right |
| 0:06.0 | Hey |
| 0:07.0 | And more |
| 0:09.0 | And more |
| 0:11.0 | And more |
| 0:13.0 | And more |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome! |
| 0:17.0 | The episode |
| 0:18.0 | 1177 has effectively wild |
| 0:21.0 | a fan-greft baseball podcast |
| 0:22.0 | brought to you by |
| 0:23.0 | fan-grefts |
| 0:24.0 | and also our patrons' sport |
| 0:25.0 | is mostly our patrons' sport |
| 0:26.0 | as I am just solving |
| 0:27.0 | of fan-grefts |
| 0:28.0 | as always by Ben Lindbergh of |
| 0:30.0 | The Ringer. Hello. Hello. How are you? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm doing alright. I am marveling |
| 0:34.0 | at the news that Andrew Cashner |
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