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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1264: Schrödinger’s Bunt Attempt

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Matt Chapman‘s misleading error total, Tyler White and “cheap” home runs, Danny Hultzen, Aaron Nola, and the concept of “safe” players, the latest on Shohei Ohtani and Willians Astudillo, Jacob deGrom and the NL MVP race, a conditional trade followup, Magneuris Sierra and the woeful Marlins, Mike Foltynewicz‘s spit balk, Michael Lorenzen’s confusing foul ball, the Andrew McCutchen trade to the Yankees and the state of the Giants, belief in Kyle Freeland, a road-trip addendum, and a Yusmeiro Petit quote.

Audio intro: Slothrust, "Trial & Error"
Audio outro: Death Cab for Cutie, "We Looked Like Giants"

Link to Tyler White’s walk-off
Link to video of spit balk
Link to Sam’s article about balks
Link to Jeff’s Lorenzen post
Link to Ben’s Freeland article
Link to Jeff’s Freeland post
Link to Petit article

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0:00.0

The way you narrow your eyes, it means to just a thousand tension.

0:05.0

I don't regret my upper hand, it's never ways, and the all of it.

0:10.0

And don't come down until your chemical's give you permission.

0:15.0

That's how it works, that's how it works.

0:17.0

But some kind of things don't work at all.

0:20.0

Hello, you're welcome to episode 1264 of Effectively Wild,

0:24.0

the Kvangrim's baseball podcast, brought to you by AirPatreon.

0:27.0

I'm Cortis, I am Dipsilven, and I'm Danger, I'm joined.

0:29.0

It's always by Ben Lindbergh, up the ringer, hello Ben.

0:31.0

Hello, I'm Kair, it's been a long week.

0:34.0

There is nothing, when we're not recorded, but when we're a bad record,

0:38.0

there is nothing that seems to make you more deeply distressed than when your dog barks in the back.

0:44.0

Normally you are very calm and composed and on top of things,

0:48.0

but you just have this, it's almost like a whimper that when the dog barks,

0:52.0

you're just like, oh no, oh no, not this, not now.

0:55.0

Yeah, it's a combination of feeling bad that I'm ignoring her to do a podcast,

1:00.0

and also the knowledge that there will almost certainly be barks on the podcast

1:05.0

that I won't be able to edit out, but we'll just have to live with those.

1:08.0

And you know, from her perspective, you were certainly ignoring her less often for podcasts this year,

1:14.0

relative to last year, when I think all you did for podcast, is that correct?

1:18.0

I guess that's true, although now I'm just ignoring her to work on a book instead.

1:22.0

So I don't know from her perspective whether it matters very much.

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