4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:24.9 | Hello and welcome to episode 1388 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast brought to you by |
0:30.5 | fan graphs and our Patreon supporters. I'm Meg Rallye of the Angrafts and I am joined as always |
0:35.2 | by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer who has hopefully sold many, many books. How are you Ben? |
0:40.5 | Doing well, I'm trying to sell many books. I hope that's going well. Midweek Meg, this is a treat |
0:45.2 | switching up the order here. Yeah, Midweek Meg. End of Week Meg is going to be on vacation, so. |
0:50.8 | Yes. I like you and our podcast very much. I like fan graphs very much and I hope to not think |
0:59.3 | about any of you, even a little bit for like a week. Yeah, so you're on the verge of vacation and |
1:06.0 | this podcast episode is pretty much the only thing standing between you and freedom it seems like |
1:10.9 | and you've also handed off transfer control of the Hardball Times to the very capable Rachel McDaniel. |
1:18.1 | So things are looking up for you from a work life balance standpoint. Yeah, we're going to pretend |
1:24.5 | that that is true because it'll make my mom less nervous and probably my therapist also, but yes, |
1:29.5 | I am very happy that Rachel is up and running and just doing a great job at THT. I have had to |
1:37.9 | apologize because I was meant to produce a, here's how you edit stuff at fan graphs in the Hardball |
1:44.0 | Times document and I said to Rachel, hey, I haven't done this yet because I got behind with the draft |
1:49.6 | and Rachel said, I'm very self-sufficient and then I said, yeah, perfect. Yeah, Rachel's doing great. |
1:56.0 | So what are your vacation plans? Are you planning for this to be a vacation from baseball or just a |
2:02.0 | vacation from baseball work or all of the things? I'm going to visit some buddies. I'm going to be off |
2:10.5 | the grid. I'm going to try to be off the grid and not engage with baseball or the grid in any form |
2:16.0 | and I'm going to not look at Twitter and I'm not going to Instagram and I'm going to delete the |
2:22.8 | Slack app from my phone. Oh wow. Yeah, I drastic step. Yeah, well, I know myself and my |
2:30.3 | proclivity to work when I'm not supposed to. So I'm taking steps to safeguard the sanity of |
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