Effectively Wild Episode 1320: Mets Are From Mars
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Willians Astudillo going viral yet again, his iconic winter-league home-run pose and the state of celebration in baseball, the improbable personality of an improbable player, Astudillo’s future in Minnesota, and the Mariners bringing back Dustin Ackley. Then (23:59) they talk to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Systems Engineer (and baseball nerd) Shannon Towey about her past work at CERN, her present work on multiple Mars missions at JPL, her scientific interest in baseball, baseball fandom at JPL, her thoughts on the state of the Mets, Baseball Twitter vs. Space Twitter, misconceptions about science, her top Solar System destinations, and more, plus a postscript about the Brewers’ surprising signing of Yasmani Grandal.
Audio intro: The Jayhawks, "Big Star"
Audio interstitial: Robyn Hitchcock, "NASA Clapping"
Audio outro: Guster, "Rocketship"
Link to Astudillo homer
Link to Jeff’s post on Astudillo
Link to volcanologist interview episode
Link to Jeff’s post on Citi Field
Link to Shannon’s pitcher-classification post
Link to Mars 2020 mission site
Link to Mars Helicopter
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| 0:00.0 | Great expectations for someone |
| 0:07.0 | Doesn't anybody know how to have fun? |
| 0:14.0 | I'm gonna be a big star |
| 0:18.0 | I'm gonna be a big star |
| 0:20.0 | Sonny |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah |
| 0:28.0 | I'm gonna be a big star someday |
| 0:33.0 | Low and welcome to episode 1320 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:38.7 | Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.4 | I am the member of the ringer, join by Jeff Sullivan of Fangrafts Jeff |
| 0:46.0 | Has anything relevant to our interests happen since the last podcast? |
| 0:50.0 | I don't know what we're gonna talk about today |
| 0:52.0 | I was at the gym last night on Tuesday night |
| 0:54.0 | Got there around at about 6 o'clock p.m. |
| 0:57.0 | I'd like to go climb and I'll keep my phone |
| 0:59.0 | I'll bring it around because in between climbs |
| 1:01.0 | I don't know if you've gone climbing since we talked about that last time |
| 1:03.0 | But in between climbs, I like to just sit |
| 1:06.0 | You have to rest yourself and so while I'm sitting for a few minutes at a time |
| 1:09.0 | I'll just check my phone, see what's going on |
| 1:11.0 | See if I need to, I don't know, like hurry home |
| 1:13.0 | To write about Bryce Harper or Manning Machado signing |
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