Effectively Wild Episode 1211: The 21-Loss Salute
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh, Jeff Sullivan, and SB Nation’s Grant Brisbee banter about Trevor Bauer, sticky substances, and spin rate, Ken Giles’s self-harming home-run reaction, the best baseball clips to rewatch, the unwritten rules of not avoiding hit by pitches, and party-hard Matt Harvey. Then they discuss Grant’s story about the record-setting 1988 Orioles, who went 0-21 to start the season, and they bring on ESPN’s Tim Kurkjian to tell stories about covering that team’s historic losing streak as a beat writer for The Baltimore Sun. (Keep listening after the outro for bonus end-of-episode banter.)
Audio intro: Ringo Starr, "Hopeless"
Audio interstitial: Ocean Colour Scene, "Beautiful Losers"
Audio outro: Superchunk, "Break the Glass"
Link to Grant’s 1988 Orioles story
Link to Little League slow-motion-run story that outdrew Grant’s 1988 Orioles story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The solution has been dissolved |
| 0:04.6 | The crisis has been resolved |
| 0:08.6 | There's no need to change your plans |
| 0:10.8 | It's a hopeless situation |
| 0:17.2 | But tomorrow is another day |
| 0:21.4 | And everything will be okay |
| 0:25.8 | And by the way |
| 0:29.8 | It's all |
| 0:31.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 12-11 |
| 0:34.8 | of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Fangrafts |
| 0:37.8 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Ben Lemberg of the ringer |
| 0:41.8 | joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts |
| 0:43.6 | Hello Jeff |
| 0:44.3 | Hi |
| 0:44.8 | And we are both joined by our pal |
| 0:46.8 | and your former colleague |
| 0:48.1 | Grant Brisbee of Espionation |
| 0:50.1 | Hello Grant |
| 0:50.6 | Hello |
| 0:51.6 | So we have Grant on for a reason today |
| 0:53.8 | We are going to talk about the 1988 Orioles |
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