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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1468: The Scott Boras Guessing Game

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley link up during the Winter Meetings for a brief bonus episode in which Meg tries to stump Ben about genuine and fake media-scrum statements supposedly made by baseball superagent Scott Boras.

Audio intro: Yo La Tengo, "If it’s True"
Audio outro: Jethro Tull, "Sparrow on the Schoolyard Wall"

Link to photo of Boras scrum
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Tiffin' Strip, I don't mind.

0:03.1

There's a million other things that keep me up that night.

0:07.4

Maybe it's not quite right, but we'll find out in this true.

0:16.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1468 of Effectively Wild, a Fangirls baseball podcast brought to

0:24.8

you by our Patreon supporters.

0:26.4

I'm Mick Rally of Fangraths reporting to you live from San Diego and I am joined as always

0:31.2

by Ben Limberg of the Ringer.

0:33.2

Then how are you?

0:34.2

I am in total Scott Borers' blackout as planned.

0:39.1

We're here for our Scott Borers' quote-guessing game in which I will attempt to discern the

0:44.1

real quotes by the linguistically adventurous super agent from the fake.

0:48.6

I'm very proud of our listeners for not, you know, tagging you into tweets and blowing

0:53.4

this.

0:54.4

I appreciate their restraint.

0:55.4

I know it had to have been difficult for them.

0:57.3

Well, they may have.

0:58.3

I have avoided Twitter just in case.

1:01.0

A couple of them did very helpfully tweet at me earlier to tell me when Scott Borers

1:05.5

would be addressing the media at the winter meeting so that I would not be spoiled.

1:09.7

And at that time at three Eastern, I closed Twitter.

1:12.9

I have since not looked at any tweets.

1:15.2

I have not looked at any baseball sites.

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