Effectively Wild Episode 1493: Getting Dusty in Here
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the “vibrathrob” episode, the Astros hiring Dusty Baker, Kris Bryant reportedly losing his service-time grievance, and Delmon Young raking in Australia, then answer listener emails about a disrespectful intro for Isiah Kiner-Falefa, teams patenting tactics, and the enduring legacy of Carlos Beltrán’s NLCS-ending strikeout, plus Stat Blasts about intentional leadoff walks, plate appearances by Hall of Famers by franchise, and whether managers call for replay reviews more often on good teams than bad teams.
Audio intro: Outkast, "Vibrate"
Audio outro: The Go-Betweens, "Dusty in Here"
Link to passage about the “vibrathrob” episode
Link to Craig Edwards on Bryant losing his grievance
Link to the legal argument against service-time manipulation
Link to Craig’s proposal for ending service-time manipulation
Link to Jayson Stark’s suggestions for ending service-time manipulation
Link to Sam in 2015 on shaming the Cubs about Bryant
Link to the ABL batter leaderboard
Link to Kiner-Falefa video
Link to video of the Boggs knuckler
Link to video of the Canseco knuckler
Link to Russell on the spread of ideas
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | La Raine, La Raine, Hi, you |
| 0:06.0 | Every boy and girl won't let the man |
| 0:12.0 | When you feel you're done about the best you can |
| 0:17.0 | Motherfuck, the wagon, don't join the band |
| 0:23.0 | La Raine, La Raine, Hi, you |
| 0:29.0 | Good morning and welcome episode 1493 of effectively wild |
| 0:33.0 | The baseball podcast at fangraphs.com |
| 0:36.0 | Prodigy by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Sam Miller of ESPN along with Ben Lindbergh, the ringer |
| 0:43.0 | Hello Ben, Hi, I know the official position of this podcast is that |
| 0:48.0 | The banging scheme is a good name for a cheating scandal |
| 0:52.0 | But I've been reading Paul Dixon's book, The Hidden Language of baseball |
| 0:56.0 | About the history of among other things, signs and signs stealing, which we talked to Paul Dixon about |
| 1:02.0 | But now I'm reading it with more careful eye |
| 1:06.0 | And so this is going to go back to the name of the banging scheme just so you know |
| 1:10.0 | You know about the scheme in the early 1900s where a little used member of the team was out in the outfield |
| 1:18.0 | Or you know various places where he could pick up the signs from the catcher |
| 1:21.0 | He would buzz, he would send a buzz to the third base coach who could feel the buzzer in a special spot |
| 1:28.0 | In the field where a buzzer had been installed he could feel it through his foot and then he could relay this sign to the batter |
| 1:32.0 | You know this one? |
| 1:34.0 | Yep, alright. |
| 1:35.0 | 1900 fillies, right? |
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