Effectively Wild Episode 1426: Fun or Foul

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller debate whether a fact about Michael Lorenzen’s multi-way play is fun, banter about Nelson Cruz’s unflagging offense, technology and the future of the knuckleball, and an ignominious achievement by Billy Hamilton, then answer listener emails about the lack of four-homer games, what would happen if foul balls caught in the […]

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0:00.0	No fun, no my fear, no fun
0:08.0	No fun, no my fear, no fun
0:16.0	No fun to hang around
0:20.0	Or feel the last same old way
0:24.0	No fun to hang around
0:27.0	Or peek out
0:31.0	For another day
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1426 of Effectively Wild
0:38.0	a baseball podcast from bandwraffs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:42.0	I am Dan Lindbergh of the Ringer
0:44.0	He is similar of ESPN, low-sand
0:47.0	I've been doing an email show but a bit of bent there first
0:50.0	I just saw this fun fact repeated in the Facebook group
0:54.0	I wanted to get your thoughts on it
0:56.0	This is about the Reds Michael Rensen
0:59.0	who became the first player since Babe Ruth to win a game as the pitcher
1:04.0	Play the field and hit a homer all in the same game
1:08.0	No, three qualifiers which is usually the death knell for fun facts
1:14.0	But it's kind of fun right?
1:17.0	No, no, no
1:18.0	I guess not judging by your reaction
1:20.0	But first since Babe Ruth, so Babe Ruth is good
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