Effectively Wild Episode 1489: Let’s Create an Award
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the symbolism of the baseball in Knives Out (beware of slight spoilers from 4:17 to 10:32), follow up on a few reader suggestions about outside hires who could clean up the Astros, and discuss the latest developments in the sign-stealing scandal, then try to invent a new end-of-season baseball award that could catch on in an era of advanced stats and award saturation, plus a postscript on a baseball reference in an episode of Sex and the City.
Audio intro: Radiohead, "Knives Out"
Audio outro: Fabolous (Feat. Pusha T), "Life is so Exciting"
Link to info on the baseball in Knives Out
Link to Sam’s article about the most exciting players
Link to paper on WAR and MVP voting
Link to Sam on WAR and Hall of Fame voting
Link to article about advanced stats and Gold Glove voting
Link to video of Sex and the City scene
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sonazza, |
| 0:05.4 | Kirk, |
| 0:10.4 | Sash is heaven, |
| 0:14.2 | God in heaven, |
| 0:17.4 | the power. |
| 0:20.4 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1489 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:24.6 | baseball podcast of bandwrefs.com, brought to you by our Patreon supporters, |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh, the ringer, |
| 0:34.1 | Hey Ben, hi, you saw knives out, I did, I also just saw knives out, |
| 0:39.0 | it is wonderful, fun, very smart, everything that people were saying about it two months ago, |
| 0:44.5 | I know I'm a bit late here to the conversation, but it is as they said, |
| 0:48.7 | but I wanted to talk about it for a moment, because it is the perfect example, |
| 0:53.6 | I think of what I meant a long ago when I said that, |
| 0:57.9 | when I said that any movie that has acknowledgement of baseball explicitly in it, |
| 1:03.6 | is a baseball movie, now that was a somewhat flippant statement that was, |
| 1:07.8 | you know, easily turned into a lot of annoying Facebook posts, |
| 1:12.6 | however, I meant it and knives out, I think is the perfect example of what I meant and why I meant it. |
| 1:18.8 | So knives out has a baseball in it, a baseball appears, we bent her about this. |
| 1:25.4 | You and I? |
| 1:26.4 | Yeah, I think it was us, right, before you saw it, |
| 1:29.6 | so maybe you didn't really register what I was adding up, but |
| 1:32.8 | really, I brought up the fact that there was a baseball in it, |
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