Effectively Wild Episode 1515: The Waiting Game
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about life during self-isolation and delayed media consumption and explore some of the long-considered and ultimately rejected article ideas in Sam’s tickler file, including Ken Griffey Jr.’s rap career, an undiscovered baseball star in Yosemite, an advance-scouting conspiracy theory, an unorthodox solution to extra-inning games, and a complaint about baseball inspired by Shel Silverstein (plus a brief baseball coronavirus update and the recommended baseball distraction of the day, about the new Statcast system and Hawk-Eye).
Audio intro: John Lennon, "Isolation"
Audio interstitial: Kid Sensation (Feat. Ken Griffey Jr.), "The Way I Swing"
Audio outro: Built to Spill, "The Wait"
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Link to Timóteo video 3
Link to Statcast presentation video
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Link to article about new Statcast physics
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| 0:00.0 | Just a boy and a little girl |
| 0:04.0 | Trying to change the whole wide world |
| 0:08.0 | I like |
| 0:12.0 | Solution |
| 0:16.0 | The world is just a little town |
| 0:22.0 | Everybody trying to pull this down |
| 0:26.0 | So late |
| 0:30.0 | So late |
| 0:34.0 | So late |
| 0:38.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 15-15 |
| 0:42.0 | Effectively wild |
| 0:44.0 | Today's ball podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:46.0 | brought to you by Patreon supporters |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Sam Miller of DSPN |
| 0:50.0 | Along with Ben Lindberg of the ringer |
| 0:54.0 | Hello |
| 0:56.0 | How are you? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, like you I think I'm isolating |
| 1:00.0 | And yet a little less isolated |
| 1:02.0 | than usual because my wife is also working from home |
| 1:04.0 | So on the one hand it's harder to find a quiet time to record |
| 1:08.0 | Podcast but on the other hand maybe she'll treat us to a live rendition of the stat blast song sometime |
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