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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1205: Baseball on the Brain

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Shohei Ohtani’s blister, the Braves signing Jose Bautista as a third baseman, and Oakland’s well-attended free-admission game, then talk to two authors of new books about what happens in baseball players’ brains: Zach Schonbrun, author of The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius (11:58), and former […]

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0:00.0

Body of beats I stay my sheets I don't even know why

0:05.2

My girlfriend she's at Yen

0:07.6

She is starting to cry

0:09.6

Let me go on

0:11.8

Like I'm clisterin' the sun

0:14.6

Let me go on

0:16.8

Big hands I know you're the one

0:21.6

Hello and welcome to episode 12-05

0:26.4

of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs

0:29.7

presented by our Patreon supporters

0:32.0

I am Elenberg of the Ringer

0:34.0

joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fan Graphs

0:36.1

Hello

0:36.8

Hi Ben

0:37.2

You've already said hello

0:38.0

I know we could have skipped that part

0:39.7

So we have a couple of guests to talk to today

0:42.3

This is going to be a fun one I think

0:44.3

In fact we've already had these conversations

0:46.3

So I can say with some confidence that it was

0:48.5

And it will be a fun one

0:50.5

So I get a lot of baseball books sent to me

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