Effectively Wild Episode 1513: Opening Day Nonstarter

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley react to MLB’s COVID-19-caused cancellation of the remainder of spring training and the postponement of Opening Day and discuss the disquieting week and the ramifications for the culture and the 2020 baseball season. Audio intro: Dan Bern, "Ballpark" Audio outro: Frank Sinatra, "I Get Along Without You Very Well" Link to MLB […]

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0:00.0	I've got to fall apart
0:09.3	I've got to fall apart
0:12.6	Oh, to my sin
0:14.6	I've got to fall apart
0:19.7	I've got to fall apart
0:29.6	Oh, to my sin
0:31.9	Hello and welcome to episode 1513
0:34.6	and effectively wild a fan graph space wall podcast brought to you by fan graphs
0:38.4	and also our Patreon supporters
0:39.9	I'm Meg Rally of Fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumber of the Ringer
0:43.6	I'm a little discombobulated Ben, how are you?
0:47.0	Yeah, no wonder the thing that we talk about all the time is not happening
0:50.9	Man, this is grim
0:52.6	This is a grim bummer, a necessary bummer
0:56.2	but a grim bummer, here we are
0:58.6	What is supposed to be two weeks out from opening day and we are at the least delayed into the early part of April
1:06.0	So yeah, so we found out Thursday afternoon
1:10.1	Not only is the rest of spring training canceled, but the WBC qualifiers are canceled
1:16.8	Also the regular season the main event that is postponed at least for two weeks
1:22.7	but really indefinitely as we see what the world looks like in two weeks
1:27.0	and on top of that the minor league season
1:29.7	which I believe was scheduled to start in April 9th
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