Effectively Wild Episode 1286: World Serious
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo, how long it takes to fall asleep, and international signings, then review the end of the NLCS, discuss the worst way to lose, forecast the legacy and future of the Brewers, and preview the Red Sox-Dodgers World Series matchup, including why the series is closer than it looks, the Mookie Betts conundrum, Clayton Kershaw vs. David Price, the status of Craig Kimbrel, the potential for bad blood, the Dodgers’ flexibility, the correlation between payroll and success, what makes an exciting World Series pairing, and much more.
Audio intro: The Roches, "You’re the Two"
Audio outro: Elliott Smith, "Coast to Coast"
Link to Kimbrel pitch-tipping article
Link to Ben’s Dodgers flexibility article
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| 0:00.0 | You're the two that I want, you're the two that I want. |
| 0:16.0 | Where some girls are set for, you're one, they don't know what they're missing, they haven't anybody, you're the two. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 12 to 86 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fanggraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.0 | I am Ben Linberg of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fanggraphs. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello. |
| 0:45.0 | Since Estadillo is playing for the Karevis, they unsubtick. I'm not going to try. It's a, it could be an indigenous word. |
| 0:55.0 | Anyway, he's batted 23 times, at least he has 23 bats, 24 played appearances I guess. |
| 1:00.0 | He's hitting 261, he's slugging only 261, but most importantly in 23 bats, 24 played appearances, one walk, no strikeouts, Williams has to do. |
| 1:08.0 | Up to his usual tricks, he is the only hitter on his team that has not yet struck out. |
| 1:13.0 | This is a team that includes names like Louis Sardinus, sometimes Major League Baseball player and Alexey Anarista, who has also been a Major League Baseball player. |
| 1:23.0 | Estadillo, I'm not going to see his doing well, but he's not doing the worst. |
| 1:26.0 | Yep, well that's for all of you wondering about what's going on in the Venezuelan Winter League on the eve of the World Series, which we will talk about next. |
| 1:34.0 | But I have one more thing to ask you. I was reading your chat at FanGraph's last Friday and someone asked you who was happier Tom Brady or Justin Verlander and they were trying to use like championship rings and spouses to decide from a far who's the happier person. |
| 1:53.0 | As you rightly pointed out, there's no way we can know from outside that you said the most important thing is how did Tom Brady and Justin Verlander feel in the 30 seconds between when they close their eyes and when they fall asleep. |
| 2:06.0 | And that made me wonder, do you fall asleep in 30 seconds after you close your eyes? |
| 2:11.0 | I have a very easy time falling asleep, but I think it's because I'm generally extremely tired by the end of the day. |
| 2:18.0 | But I also, I look forward to sleep and as far as I can tell based on my observations of your routine, you repel sleep, you sleep is water in your oil, you just choose I think I think you look at sleep is wasted time whereas I look at sleep is the highlight of my existence. |
| 2:35.0 | Yeah, I don't dislike the actual active sleeping. There's just often something else I want to do more, but when I actually do decide to sleep, I enjoy it. |
| 2:44.0 | But 30 seconds, it takes me a while. It's not like a insomnia thing like I wouldn't say I have trouble falling asleep, but there's always an adjustment period there where I go from wakefulness to sleepiness. |
| 2:57.0 | I guess my brain wonders, are we really doing this? We're actually in bed. This is happening. So it takes some time where I'm just kind of thinking about the day or where the next day or things I've done or have to do. |
| 3:10.0 | It's kind of a pleasant time to reflect and gradually drift off. So I don't know that I would want to fall asleep in 30 seconds, but that seems sudden. My wife is the same way and I always am struck by that because we'll just be having a conversation. |
| 3:24.0 | And then a minute later, she is unconscious. It just seems like the the border between consciousness and unconscious, this should be a little harder to cross than that. |
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