Effectively Wild Episode 1279: October, Continued
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the difficulties of postseason scheduling, both opening games of the NLDS, a better bullpen game by the Brewers, the Rockies’ decision to pitch to Mike Moustakas, what Christian Yelich is doing differently, the composition of the Braves and the depth of the Dodgers and Astros, and Chis Sale’s history of fading down the stretch, then answer listener emails about what would happen to a manager who consistently lost in the World Series, why teams haven’t shuffled their lineups in response to the opener, Madison Bumgarner (and every other hitting pitcher) vs. Chris Davis, how quickly stats could distinguish between Chris Davis and Khris Davis, and awarding fans for throwing balls at baserunners, plus a Stat Blast about 100-loss teams beating 100-win teams.
Audio intro: The New Pornographers, "Three or Four"
Audio outro: Pink Floyd, "Free Four"
Link to Jeff’s Yelich post
Link to Ben’s Sale article
Link to the .247 shirt
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| 0:00.0 | Bring me a dream of a place in this just in case the place I'm taking is my own. |
| 0:09.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. |
| 0:18.0 | Three, four, five, six. |
| 0:23.0 | Three, four, five, six. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1279 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:33.2 | Grandcrafts presented by our patrons supporters. I am the member of the |
| 0:37.3 | ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fancrafts. Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi Ben, I wonder about these days when you get the four playoff games back to |
| 0:45.4 | back to back to back. And it's something that I am getting excited about slash |
| 0:49.7 | dread every year and it happens generally twice. We and we're gonna have this on |
| 0:55.3 | Friday. We're gonna have this on Monday. The four games all in a row and if you |
| 0:58.9 | want, you can watch like, I guess they're not all straight exactly together. |
| 1:02.0 | But you could watch like 12 to 13 hours of physical baseball if you want to do. |
| 1:05.6 | But when we're never gonna think about that and we're never gonna think about |
| 1:08.0 | expressing anything about that, how many people who aren't writers or how many |
| 1:12.2 | people who even are writers do you think try or make any kind of effort to |
| 1:17.0 | watch the, I mean, people work for one thing where this is a brand of Monday. |
| 1:20.6 | But also, most people just want to watch their team or like one day. |
| 1:24.8 | Whoever the bandwagoning. So like this, this feels like it's one of those, like |
| 1:29.1 | writer specific and like niche writer specific kind of opinions. |
| 1:33.9 | Because even a lot of writers are covering one team primarily or at the game at a |
| 1:39.5 | certain game. So they can't see all the other games. So there probably aren't that many |
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