Effectively Wild Episode 1317: Alphabatical Order
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about the Yankees signing Troy Tulowitzki, Whit Merrifield’s vaguely worded optimism about the Royals, and the necessity of unrealistic expectations, then answer listener emails about holiday sports conversations (featuring Ben’s mom’s hot take about Mariano Rivera and the truth about Rivera versus Edgar Martinez), players who are literally in the Hall of Fame, why many fans side with owners over players in economic matters, the worst baseball card poses, fans managing games, playoff teams drafting players from non-playoff teams, and imposing time limits on games, plus Stat Blasts about Willians Astudillo, John Jaso and the best players never to qualify for the batting title, and alphabetical batting orders.
Audio intro: The Delgados, "Accused of Stealing"
Audio outro: Elliott Smith, "Alphabet Town"
Link to Pecota baseball card
Link to Grandstand Managers Night recap
Link to Schaumburg Flyers fan voting story
Link to alphabetical lineup game
Link to post about winter league playoff format
Link to Pelota Binaria
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| 0:00.0 | Then the keys don't still end |
| 0:04.0 | Are your plans? |
| 0:10.0 | But then another thought speaking |
| 0:14.0 | For a time |
| 0:20.0 | Just to keep it to your limits |
| 0:24.0 | And there it is |
| 0:30.0 | The endless sunset is a great night |
| 0:36.0 | Can't wait to see you again! |
| 0:54.0 | We'll be back with a new time format |
| 0:58.0 | Just reading artifacts and you ranting about them |
| 1:02.0 | We're not gonna do it again |
| 1:04.0 | It's war don't you? |
| 1:06.0 | I like war to the next one |
| 1:08.0 | We're gonna do emails today |
| 1:12.0 | Couple quick things we should touch on |
| 1:16.0 | Troy Tullwitsky |
| 1:20.0 | New York Yankee |
| 1:22.0 | If you'll even enter the season as they're starting shortstop depending on what happens with many machado and other potential shortstop |
| 1:28.0 | But what do you think? |
| 1:30.0 | It's just insurance |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah no I don't have much in the way of interesting thoughts |
| 1:36.0 | I think that with a player like Tullwitsky what is difficult? |
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