Effectively Wild Episode 1424: Dance With the Bat That Brought You
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about GPS, resisting the urge to take the bait on bad takes, and the debate about access for broadcasters who double as team personnel, answer listener emails about not replacing broken bats, earning/working walks, and players with underutilized skills, and close with a discussion of Félix Hernández’s future and some podcast metacommentary (plus a postscript about another unintended consequence of mercy rules).
Audio intro: Tame Impala, "Be Above it"
Audio outro: Pete Townshend, "You’re So Clever"
Link to Meg on the 12-minute game
Link to Marc on double-duty broadcasters
Link to article about broken bats
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This time I'm just gonna take it or I'll never go and shake it |
| 0:07.7 | I just can't help myself baby so that I'll spend the next on faith |
| 0:12.6 | Come out, come out, come out, come out, I gotta be a part of it now |
| 0:20.2 | And I can go and I'm all done with me now |
| 0:31.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1424 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast brought to you by |
| 0:37.0 | Vancras and our Patreon supporters on Meg Raleigh of Vancras and I'm joined as |
| 0:41.6 | always by Ben Lemberg of the ringer Ben, how are you? |
| 0:45.2 | I'm doing alright, how are you? |
| 0:47.2 | Doing well, I had another Goldman dream and the time I had to play softball |
| 0:53.2 | Very interesting, yeah it was weird |
| 0:55.2 | I wouldn't think that that would be the aspect of your coldman experience that would come back to haunt you |
| 1:00.2 | It's very close to the good things that you do now |
| 1:03.2 | I know and I never did do that when I was there, it was very strange and on a day I wrote something even terrible |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, maybe you're haunted by your failure to play softball |
| 1:13.2 | It could have been the lone bright spot during that experience |
| 1:18.2 | Perhaps that's true, I had a thought about you and Sam's your guys's GPS conversation from the other day |
| 1:26.2 | Lay it on me |
| 1:27.2 | Which is that, and this is perhaps a question that would be better directed at Sam as you know a driving sport |
| 1:34.2 | But I find, like I just use Google Maps on my phone and it goes through the Bluetooth in my car |
| 1:41.2 | And it says there was a 15 minutes slowdown ahead |
| 1:44.2 | So I haven't had the experience of being misdirected and quite a good while |
| 1:49.2 | Because when it's a traffic related thing, so that I know because it tells me |
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