Effectively Wild Episode 1339: Jeff Got a Job
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In Jeff Sullivan’s final episode as the co-host of Effectively Wild (but not the podcast’s final episode), he and Ben Lindbergh discuss his new job as an analyst for the Tampa Bay Rays, what it was like to be courted by teams, why he decided to depart FanGraphs and why he feels guilty about it, why teams wanted him this winter, his hopes and fears as he enters a new phase of his career, his evolution and voice as a writer, his affection for Mike Trout, his personal and professional relationship with Ben, what the podcast meant to him, and more.
Audio intro: Guided By Voices, "Goodbye Note"
Audio outro: My Morning Jacket, "Thank You Too"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm leaving |
| 0:04.0 | Don't interrupt the pain in my heart |
| 0:08.0 | And don't worry now |
| 0:12.0 | I'm not leaving for the home |
| 0:17.0 | But you may work here in the land |
| 0:21.0 | Take it to the shore |
| 0:25.0 | What you think is not what it is worth |
| 0:30.0 | The sun is low |
| 0:32.0 | But I will stay |
| 0:36.0 | Come if you are honest to me |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1339 of Effectively Guile |
| 0:44.0 | Today's baseball podcast with band graphs presented by our KPN supporters |
| 0:48.0 | I am the member of the ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of band graphs |
| 0:52.0 | Hello Jeff, hello |
| 0:54.0 | No banter today you have probably all read this podcast title or seen the episode summary |
| 0:59.0 | Or come across the news somewhere else |
| 1:01.0 | So you know why we're here |
| 1:03.0 | Jeff, I believe you have as they say on Twitter some personal news |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, I don't even I didn't I didn't prepare any savings. I'm leaving I'm leaving |
| 1:13.0 | I'm leaving the podcast I'm leaving then I'm leaving fan graphs and I am joining the Tampa Bay race |
| 1:19.0 | Where I will have a job with them. I will be leaving my current job and taking that job and I feel I feel |
| 1:25.0 | Very very guilty in my heart when I told the fangir of the first time I told I felt very guilty when I told you I know you have been |
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