Effectively Wild Episode 1358: Return to Sender
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Christian Yelich vs. Eugenio Suarez and Yelich vs. regression, an inscrutable ad, Jose Alvarado and the apparent increase in aesthetically pleasing pitches, visual differences between 1998 and now, and the significance of the latest contract extensions, then answer listener emails about the Twins and what makes a team fun, the Indians’ slow start, an intentional walk to Chris Davis, batting practice and bunting against the shift, Justin Verlander’s shot at 300 wins, and more, plus Stat Blasts about “True Wins” and Trevor Rosenthal and consecutive out-less outings to start a season.
Audio intro: Sloan, "Reach Out"
Audio outro: The Who, "I Can’t Reach You"
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Link to McSweeney’s list of email addresses
Link to Alvarado highlight
Link to Sam on extensions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I knock you down and then reach out |
| 0:06.5 | Retail, retail, retail |
| 0:15.0 | Retail, retail |
| 0:21.0 | Retail, retail, retail |
| 0:27.0 | Retail, retail, retail |
| 0:34.0 | Good morning! Welcome to episode 1358 |
| 0:38.0 | Effectively wild, the near daily podcast from fangrass.com |
| 0:43.0 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, a low-bend |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, that was flawless for your first intro in two and a half years or so |
| 0:55.0 | Uh-huh, every, you know, you got to keep the muscles strong so every morning I'd wake up and say the intro 15 times |
| 1:02.0 | Drive run, yeah, sometimes I do sets but |
| 1:05.0 | Paid off, yeah, how are you? I'm doing okay? Good, it is a week into the season now |
| 1:11.0 | and I think we're gonna do one more banter and emails show |
| 1:15.0 | and then we'll try to get into a routine where Sam rings the topic |
| 1:19.0 | but right now I'm still feeling a little insecure |
| 1:22.0 | and so we're just gonna talk, that works for you |
| 1:25.0 | It does, yeah, all right, so first of all we get, I don't know, you want to alternate banters? |
| 1:31.0 | Well, it sounds like you have a lot, I don't know if I have as many banters as you do |
| 1:36.0 | So I think I've got lead off, yeah I think I've got takes us |
| 1:39.0 | I think I have three things I'd like to talk about |
| 1:41.0 | One is extremely, extremely quick and this is just something that I have been meaning to bring up each episode |
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