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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1472: The Stories We Missed in 2019 (Part 2)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about Scott Boras’s mystifying goose metaphor and then, in the second installment of a three-part series, discuss stories that they overlooked about 10 more teams in 2019, touching on a Fernando Tatis Jr. fun fact and BABIP extremes, Ian Kinsler cursing, JD Hammer, Scott Kingery, and a Phillie Phanatic dispute, Mitch Keller and another kind of extreme BABIP, the Reds’ first-inning scoring, their double double-header, and Derek Dietrich, Tim Melville, Matt Harvey, Cy Sneed and Cy stats, Mark Canha, Matt Shoemaker, Jordan Luplow and James Karinchak, and other players, fun facts, and statistical oddities that deserve a longer look.

Audio intro: Parliament, "The Goose"
Audio outro: John Lennon, "I Found Out"

Link to Andy’s Boras article
Link to Kinsler cursing video
Link to Kinsler cursing comments
Link to Phanatic story
Link to pitcher BABIP leaderboard
Link to doubleheaders story
Link to Melville story
Link to order The MVP Machine

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The ghost that laid the golden egg was an extraordinary ghost

0:08.0

Really?

0:10.0

Not just a magic ghost, not a golden egg

0:16.0

Why it's a dream come true?

0:20.0

Oh, but you don't let me know

0:24.0

Golden egg but you're a golden ghost to me

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1472 of effectively wild baseball podcast

0:36.0

from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Mimberg of the

0:40.0

Ringer and I'm joined by Seymilor of ESPN, hello Sam

0:44.0

Hello Ben. Our friend friend of the show Andy McCullough added to the

0:48.0

annals of Scott Boris, Matt Boris analogies, he just wrote about Boris for the

0:54.0

athletic and he elicited a classic Boris quote here

0:58.0

and I asked Andy and he told me this seemed totally unrehearsed and

1:04.0

off the cuff and it was the revenues are the barometer for if you will the

1:10.0

cooking of the winter goose if you've got the winter goose and it's there

1:14.0

and that barometer says revenue's are there now you know the

1:18.0

probability that the temperature is going to get turned up and we're going to get a

1:22.0

cooked goose that's going to make the game interesting. So I think he's saying that

1:26.0

if the baseball's revenue's are high then you're going to get a hot

1:30.0

stove that will cook a goose I guess he wouldn't cook a goose

1:34.0

on a stove it would be an oven but one way or another

1:38.0

I don't even really know what a winter goose is is there's something special about

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