Effectively Wild Episode 1491: The Baseball Ombudsperson
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Mitch Haniger’s excruciating-sounding injuries, how Mariners fans may feel about the Braves signing Félix Hernández, the winter of Nolan Arenado’s discontent, where the Rockies went wrong, the oddness of being a baseball player, why Scott Boras believes Astros players shouldn’t apologize for stealing signs (and why he’s wrong), whether baseball could benefit from appointing an ombudsperson, and Rob Manfred’s recent comments about his second term as commissioner and the future of the sport.
Audio intro: The Cranberries, "Rupture"
Audio outro: 23frames, "The Ombudsman"
Link to article about Boras
Link to Manfred’s comments
Link to Rob Arthur on tanking and attendance
Link to Rob Arthur on ticket prices and attendance
Link to order The MVP Machine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You put out in my heart, you put out holding my heart, you put out in my heart, |
| 0:15.0 | grab shit and hold it in my heart, |
| 0:20.0 | sing it, sing it, |
| 0:24.0 | heart, |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1491 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:33.0 | a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Meg Rowley of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ranger. |
| 0:41.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Doing alright, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:45.0 | I think we're both doing better than Michehanigr. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh gosh. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm just talking about that before we started recording. |
| 0:52.0 | It's just reading the injury history, it just causes great pain. |
| 0:56.0 | Yep, probably more to you than to me. |
| 0:59.0 | I guess from personal experience, but I haven't actually ruptured a testicle in my life, |
| 1:05.0 | which I'm pretty happy to be able to say and Michehanigr cannot say the same. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm not laughing because it is funny, either that he has or that you hypothetically could, |
| 1:17.0 | but what a sentence. |
| 1:20.0 | I know. |
| 1:21.0 | It's, yeah, we were just talking about it on Slack at the Ranger and Bauman actually put it very |
| 1:30.0 | indelicately. |
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