Effectively Wild Episode 129: Why the Latest Steroids Scandal Isn’t That Scandalous/2013 Season Preview Series: Tampa Bay Rays

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether the latest PED revelations really revealed anything worrisome before previewing the Rays’ season with Adam Sobsey. Then Pete talks to Tampa Bay Tribune Rays reporter Roger Mooney (at 25:30).

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0:00.0	Evan, there's been a lot of changes this all season for your team.
0:03.1	How do you feel your chances are in the ALE?
0:05.1	I mean, I love our chances.
0:07.3	Good morning and welcome to episode 129 of Effectively Wild,
0:11.8	the baseball perspective daily podcast.
0:14.3	In New York, New York, I am Ben Lindbergh and in Long Beach, California.
0:18.4	You are Sam Miller.
0:19.4	Hello.
0:19.9	Hi, Ben.
0:20.4	Hi.
0:21.2	Hi.
0:22.6	Today is the third installment of our season preview series,
0:28.6	which means since we are East Coast spiast and started with the ALE East,
0:34.2	we will be talking about last season's third place team in the ALE East,
0:38.2	the Tampa Bay race, with Adam Sobsi, representing BP and the BP annual
0:45.0	and Roger Mooney, representing, I guess, the mainstream media.
0:51.0	He covers the race for the Tampa Tribune and TBO.com.
0:57.6	But we thought, or I guess really, I thought we could pause just for a few minutes
1:05.2	to talk about the steroid stuff that surfaced yesterday,
1:09.5	which is probably something we would have talked about if we weren't doing the season preview episode,
1:16.4	and Matt Trueblood tweeted at us earlier and said,
1:21.5	best part of being an Effectively Wild listener.
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