Effectively Wild Episode 1282: Play-By-Playoffs
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the response to their writing about the demise of the starting pitcher, the sources of their unease about baseball’s bullpen takeover, and the difficulty of previewing playoff rounds, then set up and break down the Astros-Red Sox ALCS and the Dodgers-Brewers NLCS and revisit the dullness of the division series round. After the break (37:50), they bring on Britni de la Cretaz to discuss her feature for The Ringer about why women broadcasters are still severely underrepresented in play-by-play roles.
Audio intro: Miniature Tigers, "Like or Like Like"
Audio interstitial: Land of Talk, "Got a Call"
Audio outro: Shy Boys, "Champion"
Link to Ben’s bullpenning opinion piece
Link to Jeff’s bullpenning poll
Link to Ben’s 2017 Keuchel article
Link to Stripling pitch-tipping piece
Link to Britni’s broadcasting article
Link to Jenny Cavnar’s call
Link to Christina Kahrl interview
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| 0:00.0 | Tell me how you feel about me, do you like it like me? |
| 0:05.6 | Tell me what you really feel to you like me? |
| 0:10.2 | Just say you too. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 12 of Eating 2. |
| 0:20.3 | I have a spectacular profile with a easy spell podcast with Vangrass, |
| 0:23.2 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Ben Lerberg of The Ringer, joined by Jeff Sullivan of Vangrass to the hope. |
| 0:29.5 | Hey Ben. |
| 0:30.5 | We're going to be previewing the championship series a little bit. |
| 0:33.5 | Later in this episode we will also be talking to Brittany De La Crada, |
| 0:37.0 | about her great article for The Ringer, about women in broadcasting. |
| 0:41.5 | But before we do, my opinion piece came out and you piggybacked on my opinion with a piece |
| 0:49.2 | of your own, which you didn't exactly express an opinion as strongly as I did in your |
| 0:54.2 | piece, but you did agree with my opinion, which is a form of expressing an opinion. |
| 1:00.8 | So it seems like neither of us really like the evolution of picture usage, at least in |
| 1:09.0 | the narrative aesthetic sense. |
| 1:11.5 | I wrote my piece, we talked on the show about how I sort of miss having the starting picture |
| 1:16.2 | as the protagonist of the game, who's kind of the constant, and it's really fascinating |
| 1:21.4 | to see how he adjusts and how the opposing team adjusts to him, and we're losing a little |
| 1:26.3 | of that element as we go towards this bullpen centric model. |
| 1:30.1 | And so you pulled the audience and the early results indicate that the audience agrees. |
| 1:36.3 | Yeah, you were taking my banter, although I guess you're not, because you just led to |
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