Effectively Wild Episode 1403: Bullhorse and Horsecrock
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Ball Four and Jim Bouton, Million Dollar Coin Flip, Christian Yelich’s pursuit of the first 50-30 season and which combination of power and speed would be most impressive, a baseball scene on Cheers, how the MLB All-Star Game differs from other sports’ all-star games, Bubba Starling and the incredible first round of the 2011 draft, the latest Atlantic League experiments and a new rule that isn’t really about stealing first base, the effect of the unified trade deadline and the strange state of the standings, and more.
Audio intro: Lizzo, "Juice"
Audio outro: Tommy James and the Shondells, "Ball of Fire"
Link to Jay on Bouton
Link to Yelich 50-30 article
Link to THT article on Cheers
Link to Bob Costas Cheers video
Link to Ben on the baseball scene in Elementary
Link to article about all-star game ridiculousness
Link to Rany’s draft age study
Link to recap of Portland Pickles’ Future of Baseball Night
Link to Sam on the most watchable players
Link to Ben on busy trade deadlines
Link to Ben on this year’s unified deadline and strange standings
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | Hey my foes that I'm not, you're getting loose |
| 0:03.5 | Gotta blame it on the boots |
| 0:05.5 | Gotta blame it on my juice, baby |
| 0:08.3 | Hey my foes that I'm not till making new |
| 0:11.5 | I'm the proof it in the poops |
| 0:13.6 | Gotta blame it on my juice, ya ya ya yee |
| 0:16.5 | Ya ya yee, ya ya ya ya ya ya ya |
| 0:20.1 | You're blaming all my juice, baby, baby |
| 0:22.5 | All my juice, ya ya yee |
| 0:24.5 | Hello and welcome to episode 1403 |
| 0:27.9 | of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs |
| 0:31.1 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:33.2 | I am Ben Memberg of the ringer |
| 0:35.2 | with Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:37.1 | Hello Sam |
| 0:38.0 | Hey Ben, at what age did you read Ball 4 |
| 0:41.5 | for the first time to hit you for it more than once? |
| 0:43.6 | Well I can give you a definitive answer |
| 0:46.1 | in not that long because the year that I read it |
| 0:50.0 | This is very specific here |
| 0:53.0 | I wrote a blog post on my wife's personal blog |
| 0:56.3 | about my favorite books of the year that I had read |
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