Effectively Wild Episode 1372: The Angellic Choir
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the merits of True Wins vs. no-hitters, a Pablo Sandoval fun fact, whether most pitchers would prefer to be better than average with a higher ERA or worse than average with a lower ERA, and whether the running Royals are, in fact, fun, then (26:24) talk to author Joe Bonomo about his book about about The New Yorker’s Hall of Fame baseball writer Roger Angell, touching on Angell’s notes and writing process, his career arc and evolution, his facility with words, his memory and and recall, his attitude about changes in the game, his best and most overlooked pieces, his feelings about being labeled a baseball writer, the larger themes in his work, and more.
Audio intro: Smith Westerns, "Idol"
Audio interstitial: Jenny and Johnny, "New Yorker Cartoon"
Audio outro: Donovan, "Writer in the Sun (Demo)"
Link to Sam on the True Win
Link to video of Gore-Hamilton play
Link to video of Hamilton scoring from second on sac fly
Link to Roger Angell’s New Yorker archive
Link to No Place I Would Rather Be
Link to preorder The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Always look out to you |
| 0:03.0 | For a son trying to catch you like you |
| 0:09.0 | We'll find out you're every move |
| 0:13.0 | Pretends it's just like you |
| 0:18.0 | I, I, I |
| 0:23.0 | You're the senior that's surprised |
| 0:27.0 | I, I, I |
| 0:32.0 | You're so busy, you're the same |
| 0:35.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1372 |
| 0:38.0 | of Effectively Wildly baseball podcast from Fangrass |
| 0:41.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer |
| 0:45.0 | joined by Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam |
| 0:48.0 | We're gonna spend most of this episode |
| 0:50.0 | talking to the author Joe Bonomo |
| 0:53.0 | about Roger Angel |
| 0:54.0 | the pure list long time New Yorker contributor |
| 0:57.0 | really long time since 1944 |
| 0:59.0 | because Joe has a new book out |
| 1:01.0 | it's called No Place I Would Rather Be |
| 1:03.0 | Roger Angel and a Life in Baseball Writing |
| 1:05.0 | we both just read it and we both love Roger Angel |
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