Effectively Wild Episode 1405: The Rookie Mistake

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s visit to Cleveland, the Giants’ perplexing situation heading into the trade deadline, Edwin Jackson’s next destination, and the approaching addition of ads to MLB jerseys. Then they answer listener emails about whether Mike Trout’s popularity among stat-savvy fans stems from his lack of playoff appearances, the “strikeout […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 14 or 5 with effectively wild
0:27.2	fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our patreon supporters and
0:30.7	fan graphs I guess I have gone one reason a while I'm the rally of
0:35.4	fan graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ring of Ben how
0:39.1	are you I've missed you pal yeah I'm tight-knit-talk how was your all-star experience
0:44.4	well my actual all-star experience took place on my couch at home so not so
0:50.4	dissimilar from past all-star experiences but the future's game was great fun
0:54.2	I survived both getting to and returning from Cleveland yeah just not an easy
1:01.0	place to get to from Seattle from Seattle anyway all those sort of our more
1:07.3	Western Lee compatriots had a similarly tricky travel but it was it was nice I
1:13.7	had never been to Cleveland's good little Midwest City did you leave before the
1:18.4	Derby to yeah yeah yeah I left before the Derby but my flight had live
1:23.7	ESPN so I actually got to watch most of the Derby despite not being there but
1:28.3	watching the Derby you know this was like the second year in a row where I was
1:32.1	like the Derby's pretty great maybe I want to like be at the Derby right now yeah
1:37.2	right so that was that was a fun surprise feeling but yeah Cleveland's
1:44.4	cool I think we should be nicer to Midwestern cities I think put kind of
1:48.6	not be about them on the coast yes like what like people talk about them like
1:53.6	they're not sophisticated as if there's not Panera in Seattle or something I don't
1:59.2	get it all every city is the same now they're all the same we have the same
2:03.1	restaurants everywhere like I've had that argument with Sam on this podcast I
2:07.9	think years ago where he was arguing that you couldn't get good food of a certain
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