Effectively Wild Episode 1314: What We Missed in 2018 (NL Edition)
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the second of two themed episodes, Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan review one aspect of each National League team’s year that they overlooked on earlier episodes, touching on stories involving the Baby Braves, Charlie Culberson, and Dansby Swanson, Brent Suter vs. Corey Kluber, Jack Flaherty vs. Walker Buehler, Willson Contreras‘s wedding, Archie Bradley, Yasiel Puig, Dereck Rodriguez and Gorkys Hernandez, Wei-Yin Chen’s record split, Zach Wheeler and the Mets, Dave Martinez and camels, the Padres’ bullpen, Jorge Alfaro, Trevor Williams, Jesse Winker, D.J. Johnson, and more.
Audio intro: Kim Wilde, "The Second Time"
Audio outro: Bryan Adams, "We Did it All"
Link to article about Baby Braves
Link to Swanberson photo 1
Link to Swanberson photo 2
Link to Suter homer
Link to Meg on Bradley
Link to Chen’s record split
Link to Williams turnaround article
Link to Johnson origin story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I never let it go, they don't accept me too |
| 0:03.9 | Have you stopped your mom while exploring? |
| 0:08.0 | Look in the mirror, I've seen a kid out of something new |
| 0:12.0 | Why don't we do it? |
| 0:13.7 | Just do it once again, just go for it |
| 0:19.6 | Just go for the second time |
| 0:23.6 | Just go for it |
| 0:25.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1314 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:33.5 | bandwraps presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.1 | I am the Lindeberg of the Ringer joint by Jeff Sullivan of bandwraps |
| 0:39.9 | Hello, hey Ben, I was your Christmas |
| 0:41.9 | Good, how's yours? |
| 0:42.9 | Not bad, I've been traveling a bunch and right now I apologize if there's any background noise |
| 0:48.4 | that is the noise of the party that is going on that I just removed myself from to creep up |
| 0:53.9 | to the attic to record a baseball podcast the day after Christmas |
| 0:57.8 | So we were going through some old family photo albums I'm down here with my fiance |
| 1:03.3 | we're at my parents' house in California and in one of the photo albums I grew up for a few years in New Orleans |
| 1:09.5 | and there was a picture of me sitting alone in a parked car because Marty Gras was too loud |
| 1:14.8 | and I didn't want to go to it |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, I mean that's like I can hear the merry-making going on downstairs |
| 1:21.2 | part of me feels like I should be there and part of me feels like hey this is giving me an excuse |
| 1:25.4 | not to be there so this is introvert time even though I guess this is also being extroverted |
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