Effectively Wild Episode 1302: No True Outcomes
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Robinson Cano, Madison Bumgarner, and Paul Goldschmidt trade rumors, what makes for a slow or exciting offseason, and the cooling effect that superteams can have on the hot stove, then (16:14) bring on Superpesis marketing and communications director Jussi Pyysalo to talk about the Finnish national sport of Pesäpallo, or Finnish Baseball, touching on its origins, popularity, similarities to and differences from baseball, strategic complexity, gender equality, shorter games and lack of strikeouts, walks, and home runs, international expansion, best player, potential to produce baseball prospects, capacity to be followed from afar, and more.
Audio intro: Queen, "Play the Game"
Audio interstitial: Monty Python, "Finland"
Audio outro: Death Cab for Cutie, "Different Names for the Same Thing"
Link to Jeff’s Bumgarner post
Link to Zach Kram on roster retention
Introduction to pesäpallo
Official rules of pesäpallo
Pesäpallo rules explainer video
Link to pesäpallo WSJ piece
Link to pesäpallo NYT piece
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Open up your mind and let me step inside |
| 0:05.7 | Lift your weary head and let your heart decide it's so easy |
| 0:14.2 | When you know the rules, it's so easy |
| 0:21.0 | All you have to do is follow along |
| 0:24.8 | Play the game, everybody play the game |
| 0:31.8 | All the life |
| 0:35.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 1302 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast |
| 0:41.8 | that bandwrafs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:44.8 | I'm Dan Leberg of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of bandwrafs |
| 0:48.8 | Hello, so we are doing something completely different today |
| 0:52.8 | We do almost every day, but we're in sort of a lull right now with real baseball |
| 0:58.8 | Even in terms of rumors and transactions |
| 1:00.8 | So we are going overseas for this episode |
| 1:03.8 | We are going to talk about Finnish baseball |
| 1:06.8 | Finnish baseball also known as Pesipolo |
| 1:09.8 | And I have to think, listen to Junus Lukinen, who I hope I'm not terribly mispronouncing |
| 1:14.8 | A Finnish fan of the podcast who emailed us this summer to say |
| 1:19.8 | We have Finnish baseball and it's weird |
| 1:22.8 | And he then explained what it was and why it's weird |
| 1:26.8 | And we said, well, of course we have to do an episode on that once we roll around to the slow part of the calendar |
| 1:31.8 | And here we are, so later in this episode and for most of this episode |
| 1:36.8 | We will be talking to one of the big wigs of Finnish baseball or Pesipolo |
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