Effectively Wild Episode 1348: Season Preview Series: Indians and White Sox
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg witnessing actual baseball being played, her plans for watching the Mariners’ and Athletics’ international Opening Day matchup, Willians Astudillo’s spring training, the long list of 2019 and 2020 rules changes announced by MLB and the MLBPA, Meg’s new hires at FanGraphs, and Jessica Mendoza’s dual role with ESPN and the Mets, then preview the 2019 Indians (44:41) with senior writer for The Athletic Zack Meisel, and the 2019 White Sox (1:15:32) with The Athletic’s White Sox beat writer, James Fegan.
Audio intro: The 88, "The Real Thing"
Audio interstitial 1: The New Pornographers, "Jessica Numbers"
Audio interstitial 2: Eric B. & Rakim, "No Competition"
Audio outro: Pixies, "Into the White"
Link to video of Astudillo dinger
Link to Grant on time of game
Link to Ben’s article on the rules changes
Link to Gerald Schifman on teams exploiting minor-league options
Link to Schifman on the rise of MLB’s minimum earners
Link to Meg’s announcement about new hires
Link to Zack on Mario Kart
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| 0:00.0 | How I want to be a thing |
| 0:05.5 | Make you don't know it's happened |
| 0:08.0 | But I want to be a thing |
| 0:12.5 | You're the one who's born to him |
| 0:15.5 | And I want to be a thing |
| 0:21.0 | Make you go now |
| 0:23.5 | You want to be a thing |
| 0:27.0 | I'm going to die for no more |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm just being a thing |
| 0:33.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1348 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:38.0 | A baseball podcast from the 10 graphs presented by our featuring supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I'm remembered at the ringer joined by Meg Rally of the 10 graphs |
| 0:46.0 | Hey Meg, hello |
| 0:47.0 | We are doing an AL Central episode today |
| 0:50.0 | Everyone just turned off their podcast now |
| 0:53.0 | I'm sorry, it's a day all central episode |
| 0:55.0 | So we're doing an Indian's preview and also doing a white sucks preview with Zach Meisel and James Vegan respectively |
| 1:02.0 | But that's alright, every team deserves its moment in the spotlight |
| 1:05.0 | Even if they are in the AL Central |
| 1:07.0 | One of these teams is actually good |
| 1:09.0 | And the other one is kind of interesting at least |
| 1:11.0 | But you are recently returned from baseball yourself |
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