Effectively Wild Episode 1331: Season Preview Series: Reds and Athletics
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In the first installment of the seventh annual Effectively Wild season preview series, Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about Bryce Harper, Scott Boras, team meetings with free agents, the season preview series, the Super Bowl, and mortality, then preview the 2019 Reds (12:11) with The Athletic’s C. Trent Rosecrans, and the 2019 Athletics (47:46) with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser.
Audio intro: The Sadies, "The Very Beginning"
Audio interstitial 1: Nick Drake, "One of These Things First"
Audio interstitial 2: The Coral, "Don’t Think You’re the First"
Audio outro: Beck, "Seventh Heaven"
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| 0:00.0 | We were like slowly became |
| 0:05.0 | Soon we'll all go up in flames |
| 0:08.0 | And chase the smoke |
| 0:09.0 | Is better ashes |
| 0:10.0 | While the dust has become the bliss |
| 0:12.0 | Enjoy the clouds |
| 0:14.0 | The rain of the house |
| 0:16.0 | Before yesterday's the same day |
| 0:18.0 | And dress up |
| 0:19.0 | It has to make the dust |
| 0:21.0 | And with the mist |
| 0:22.0 | Go to the clouds |
| 0:23.0 | And bring the rain to wash us all away again |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1331 |
| 0:30.0 | of the Effective Tree |
| 0:31.0 | While the a baseball podcast from |
| 0:33.0 | Bandrats presented by our |
| 0:35.0 | patrons |
| 0:36.0 | I am Ben Nperg of the Binger |
| 0:38.0 | Joins by Jeff Sullivan of Bandrats |
| 0:40.0 | Hello |
| 0:41.0 | I have breaking news |
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