Effectively Wild Episode 1369: Utilitarian Player
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Co-hosts assemble! Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, and Meg Rowley banter (briefly and sans spoilers) about baseball in Avengers: Endgame and follow up both about Meg’s attempt to keep track of baseball at a bachelorette party and about pricing on Cameo for Kevin Pillar and Mike Trout, then talk about baseball and happiness, comparing their picks for the World Series winner, division winners, WAR leader, rules change, baseball occurrence, and alteration in past World Series outcome that would most increase the amount of happiness in the world.
Audio intro: Spoon, "Utilitarian"
Audio outro: Buzzcocks, "Everybody’s Happy Nowadays"
Link to story about the Mets in Endgame
Link to survey on hated teams
Link to Ben on Astudillo
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Make it out, take it out |
| 0:03.0 | If you hold to the towering |
| 0:07.0 | Or a |
| 0:09.0 | Actually |
| 0:11.0 | It's you to the towering |
| 0:15.0 | Oh yeah, we're in luck with this proverbial world |
| 0:19.0 | You can all |
| 0:23.0 | Oh when the walk down the steps |
| 0:25.0 | It just hopped away across the road |
| 0:29.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1369 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:34.0 | The baseball podcast with bandgraphs.com |
| 0:36.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Meg Rally |
| 0:42.0 | bandgraphs.com and Ben Wimbard of Ringer.com |
| 0:46.0 | Hi guys, how are you? |
| 0:47.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 0:49.0 | We've got a big abstract show ahead for everybody |
| 0:53.0 | But before we get to the abstract part |
| 0:56.0 | Does anybody have anything they need to talk to us about? |
| 0:59.0 | I have not watched baseball for three days because I was traveling |
| 1:03.0 | So, uh, no |
| 1:05.0 | What happened with your moral dilemma about Vladito's debut? |
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