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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1252: Beware of Baseball Grumps

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan follow up on an awful umpire call from the Mexican League, discuss the all-time top power-plus-speed players, lament Johnny Cueto’s Tommy John surgery, and acknowledge Mike Trout overtaking Mookie Betts on offense. Then they bring on Fangraphs writer Meg Rowley to discuss baseball grumps, good and bad broadcasting, the role of the commissioner, how fans and writers should reckon with the Roberto Osuna story and other bad news besieging baseball, the progress the game has made, and the Mariners losing their lead in the AL wild card race.

Audio intro: No Doubt, "Suspension Without Suspense"
Audio interstitial: The Black Keys, "Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be"
Audio outro: Stars, "Progress"

Link to video of awful umpire call
Link to list of players with most HR+SB games
Link to Meg’s article about baseball grumps

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0:00.0

Oh, yes, so far, the minute it just starts me wild again

0:15.0

And I'm still all the time, I'm looking at it again

0:22.0

And again, the special revamp is dead

0:29.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1252 of the next week's Wildly Sandgreft Space Ball podcast

0:36.0

brought to you by our patrons, Florida's Himes of Sullivan, Sandgreft's Join

0:39.0

So always by Ben Lindbergh, the ringer, hello Ben

0:41.0

Hello, how are you? I'm doing alright

0:44.0

I understand you are going to Miss Saber Seminar, I will not ask you why now

0:48.0

because I ask you that later in the segment we already recorded in this episode

0:52.0

for pretty much the entirety of this episode

0:55.0

We will be joined by recurring guests, could we say recurring guests?

0:59.0

Meg Rally, sure, she has recurring

1:02.0

She records, one of her qualities, Meg Rally will join us

1:06.0

and we will talk about baseball grumps and we will also talk about a darker note

1:11.0

the Roberta or Sunitrade and the Fallout of the Astros making that maneuver

1:15.0

and then that ends with the Seattle Mariners collapse in the standings

1:18.0

Meg will join us for about an hour and ten minutes but before we get to that

1:21.0

I did want to issue some sort of follow-up we talked a few weeks ago

1:25.0

about a swinging strike that wasn't in the Mexican leagues

1:30.0

you remember the segment

1:32.0

Very well, how could I forget?

1:34.0

A player swung and missed at a pitch

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