Effectively Wild Episode 1446: How Not to Behave
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about their playoff livestreams, the Yankees’ ALCS defeat, why pitchers are allowed to demand new baseballs, and pulling a catcher from the game when a team is leading, then discuss Sports Illustrated reporter Stephanie Apstein’s report about the post-ALCS behavior of Astros assistant GM Brandon Taubman, the Astros’ response to that report, the response to that response, and why the Astros’ actions seem so reprehensible and signify pervasive problems. Then they close with ruminations on minimum innings, postseason swing rates, the World Series as a showcase for free agents, the postseason performances of and offseason outlooks for Anthony Rendon, Gerrit Cole, and Stephen Strasburg, and more.
Audio intro: Jenny Lewis, "Bad Man’s World"
Audio outro: Margo Price, "Don’t Say It"
Link to Stephanie Apstein’s story about Taubman
Link to Houston Chronicle story about Taubman
Link to The Athletic story about Taubman
Link to Ben on World Series winners standing pat
Link to Zach Kram on the World Series’ historic starting rotations
Link to Ben on the free agents in the World Series
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | The success of the statement that lit up all through |
| 0:07.2 | And then you feel that that too |
| 0:13.2 | It's a bad man's world, it's a bad man's world |
| 0:21.2 | It's a bad man's world |
| 0:27.2 | It's a bad man's world, it's a bad man's world |
| 0:41.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1446 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:46.4 | a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:51.2 | I am Ed Limberg of the Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN |
| 0:55.2 | Hello Sam |
| 1:25.2 | Sam liked it, I'll spoil it here he thinks it's a good ad |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, that's what people pay for the privilege I guess of getting those exclusive insights |
| 1:33.6 | I don't know that there were that many over the course of the four hours that we talked to some Patreon people on Saturday and ALCS Game 6 |
| 1:42.0 | But if you were not involved in that you can get involved in the next one because we're doing it again on Friday for World Series Game 3 |
| 1:50.0 | And this time we're going to sink our video |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, instead of just talking about how it's not synced for four hours we thought maybe we'll sink it |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, that's a radical idea |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, so I'm looking forward to that |
| 2:04.0 | I'm looking forward to sharing my reaction space with you |
| 2:08.0 | Yeah, okay |
| 2:10.0 | I mentioned this on the thing but as it was you were way behind us and I was kind of in the middle and Meg was a little bit ahead and then when Eric long and again came and |
| 2:20.0 | Craig came and I think Emma I don't remember what Joe I don't remember Jordan mentioning the game now that I think about it |
| 2:26.0 | But the rest of them were all a little bit ahead of us and so it was this weird thing where like something would happen |
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