Effectively Wild Episode 1364: Rounding Second and Heading for Home
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Johnny Cooney as the Vroom Vroom Guy, minor-league closer Dusten Knight’s backflip save-celebration ritual, the extreme struggles of the Red Sox, and a new way to represent Willians Astudillo’s success at making contact, then answer listener emails about umpires calling balls and strikes from second base and the most commonly known things about baseball, plus a Stat Blast about the disappearance of old pitchers.
Audio intro: The Undertones, "Jump Boys"
Audio outro: The Capes, "First Base"
Link to backflip videos
Link to Chapman somersault video
Link to Jeff on classifying closer celebrations
Link to Astudillo leaderboard
Link to umpire-accuracy article
Link to The Roots video
Link to post on White Sox caps and hip-hop culture
Link to piece on politicians’ baseball metaphors
Link to Sam on a 50-inning game
Link to Ben on early-season stat changes
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | They're just like to decide, got my energy the most |
| 0:04.0 | Net times, the lonely time they cross, streets like ghosts |
| 0:07.5 | Same to that, your face, never try to walk away |
| 0:10.5 | Getting a trouble, they got lots of sad |
| 0:14.0 | Jump, jump, jump, fight |
| 0:17.0 | Jump, jump, jump, fight |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1364 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:36.0 | The Baseball Podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:38.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Sam Miller, of ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh, the Ringer |
| 0:45.0 | Lobe Ben, Lo! How's it going? |
| 0:47.0 | Doing well. |
| 0:48.0 | I want to say that when you told me that I was having a good 36 or older season at the end of the last episode |
| 0:56.0 | I brushed past it in the moment, but it stuck with me and it meant a lot to me, so thank you |
| 1:02.0 | Oh, what's nice. |
| 1:03.0 | Sounded depreciative at the time? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, that was more sort of like a default manners in public |
| 1:11.0 | I have two very quick things to mention |
| 1:15.0 | One is that in the two days of baseball place, since we last recorded, triples have gone down |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, okay |
| 1:21.0 | So that's exciting |
| 1:23.0 | They're now down to 0.13 per game, which is, let's see here, almost 20% lower than the all-time record |
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