Effectively Wild Episode 1506: Season Preview Series: Athletics and Rockies
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Astros confiscating signs at spring training and Madison Bumgarner’s rodeo alter ego, Mason Saunders, then preview the 2020 Athletics (13:58) with the San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser, and the 2020 Rockies (39:47) with The Athletic’s Nick Groke, plus a postscript on the implications of Luis Severino’s season-ending surgery (1:13:16).
Audio intro: Jonathan Coulton, "I’m a Mason Now"
Audio interstitial 1: Johnny Cash, "Wreck of the Old 97"
Audio interstitial 2: Willie Nelson and Ray Price, "This Cold War With You"
Audio outro: Porcupine Tree, "Sever Tomorrow"
Link to Morning Consult sign-stealing poll
Link to Mason Saunders story
Link to story on Monfort’s 94-wins quote
Link to Ben on spring training elbow injuries
Link to Astros response to cheating lawsuit
Link to order The MVP Machine
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| 0:00.0 | I got a role and a pretty night frame. |
| 0:03.3 | You bet that brotherhood's a wonderful thing. |
| 0:06.3 | Guess what, I'm a missing out. |
| 0:08.5 | If you better take care, if you want to stay on the good side, |
| 0:13.0 | I'm a guy who has got the secret and shake. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah! |
| 0:18.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1506 of Effectively Wild, |
| 0:22.9 | a baseball podcast from Bandgrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Ben Lembert of the Vingering joined by Meg Rally of the Biggest Slow Meg. |
| 0:30.9 | Hello! |
| 0:31.9 | We've got a season preview podcast on the Dacket today, |
| 0:34.7 | so in just a moment we'll be bringing on Susan Susser to talk about the open aes, |
| 0:39.0 | followed by Nick Broke to discuss the Rockies. |
| 0:41.7 | Two teams did not make a lot of moves this winter, |
| 0:44.2 | but they're still such to say, and we will say it. |
| 0:46.8 | Is there anything you would like to say before that? |
| 0:49.3 | So Ben, yeah. |
| 0:51.5 | I want a vacation, right? |
| 0:53.0 | And when I go on vacation, I try to not be online very much, |
| 0:56.6 | because we're online all the time. |
| 0:58.2 | Smart. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah, you and I were plugged in. |
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