Effectively Wild Episode 1430: To Win or Not to Win
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kyle Lewis’s debut, Rich Hill’s brief return, Daniel Palka’s second hit of the season, the Braves and Dallas Keuchel, and the Diamondbacks’ Brewers-style rebuild, then (18:13) talk to Will Leitch about what (if anything) Dave Dombrowski’s firing says about MLB teams’ competitive priorities, how the Cardinals (and Jack Flaherty) became the NL’s most successful second-half squad, and the NL Central and NL wild card races.
Audio intro: The Resonars, "Attention Here"
Audio interstitial: Supertramp, "The Meaning"
Audio outro: The Mountain Goats, "Bluejays and Cardinals"
Link to Tony Wolfe on Keuchel
Link to Ben Clemens on the Diamondbacks
Link to Will’s Dombrowski column
Link to Rob Arthur on Dombrowski
Link to Evan Drellich on Dombrowski
Link to Peter Gammons on Dombrowski
Link to Zach Kram on Flaherty
Link to Andrew Simon on Flaherty
Link to Craig on the Cardinals’ defense
Link to Will’s Cardinals podcast
Link to Will’s newsletter
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | You never saw that bridge burning You never saw that tide turning |
| 0:06.5 | Let you become the biggest cliche |
| 0:12.0 | Your home's gone You got those downs |
| 0:15.3 | You think your number wanted down |
| 0:18.9 | Will anyone remember you at home? |
| 0:25.0 | Attention here, attention here |
| 0:28.6 | You're only sticking out the air |
| 0:32.6 | Till nobody behind you takes your dog |
| 0:36.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1430 |
| 0:39.6 | and Effectively wild a baseball podcast brought to you by fan graphs |
| 0:42.6 | and our Patreon supporters I'm Meg Rally of Fan graphs |
| 0:45.6 | and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberner of The Ringer |
| 0:48.6 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:49.6 | Doing alright, how are you? |
| 0:51.6 | I'm doing alright |
| 0:52.6 | You told me you were going to a Mariners Redskim on Thursday |
| 0:56.6 | and you didn't send Super Psych to pat that match up |
| 0:58.6 | but I said maybe Kyle Lewis will hit a homer |
| 1:00.6 | and Kyle Lewis hit a homer |
| 1:02.6 | That must have been fun |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, that part was fun |
| 1:06.6 | It was Justin Dunn's Major League debut |
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