Effectively Wild Episode 1178: Season Preview Series: Nationals and Tigers
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about another volcanic comment by Scott Boras, the Eric Hosmer and J.D. Martinez signings and the Rays’ sudden sell-off, MLB’s latest pace-of-play initiatives, why spring training intentions often go awry, and sabermetric trailblazer Sherri Nichols, then preview the 2018 Nationals (23:46) with the Washington Post’s Chelsea Janes, and the 2018 Tigers (50:44) with MLB.com’s Jason Beck.
Audio intro: Jeff Buckley, "When the Levee Breaks"
Audio interstitial 1: Marcy Playground, "Sherry Fraser"
Audio interstitial 2: The Isotopes, "Tigerblood"
Audio outro: The Halo Benders, "Love Travels Faster"
Link to Ben’s article about Sherri Nichols
Link to Banished To The Pen season preview posts
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| 0:00.0 | In the Q-Zone Red and Levin's corner grey |
| 0:05.5 | Q-Zone Red and Levin's corner grey |
| 0:12.8 | We're gonna let this race have no first place |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1178 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast for fan graphs |
| 0:27.3 | presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lemberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of fan graphs |
| 0:34.0 | who has a brand new microphone |
| 0:36.3 | Save microphone is as I have so we are now on a level playing field |
| 0:40.1 | Not true, this one's white |
| 0:42.1 | Okay, well mine's silver so there's still something to set us apart |
| 0:45.6 | But if Jeff sounds any different, that's why hopefully it's an improvement |
| 0:49.6 | Not that you sounded bad before |
| 0:51.1 | So we have a lot to get to I guess later in this episode |
| 0:55.1 | We're doing season previews |
| 0:57.1 | We'll be talking to Chelsea James of the Washington Post about the nationals |
| 1:01.8 | And then we'll be talking to Jason Beck of MLB.com about the Tigers |
| 1:06.3 | But the stove is suddenly hot |
| 1:08.6 | It took a long time to heat up but we suddenly have transactions here |
| 1:12.8 | We have a belated Eric Cosmer signing and JD Martinez signing |
| 1:16.8 | We have a trade, a three-way trade that just broke as we were about to record |
| 1:21.6 | Which you have to go right about as soon as possible |
| 1:25.6 | We have Tempubi-Rays transactions that happened over the past few days |
| 1:30.1 | We also have Scott Boris dredging up another volcano analogy |
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