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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1519: Fauxpening Day

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about which types of old games they would want to rewatch, Noah Syndergaard’s Tommy John surgery, and how short is too short for a regular season, then answer listener emails about whether the 2020 title will be tainted by a shortened season, whether MLB should skip the regular season and go straight to the playoffs or replace the standard playoff format with an extended tournament or bracket, whether great players should be allowed to pick a team for their farewell season, and whether MLB should try seven-inning games this season, plus a Stat Blast (with a special song) about the worst player to play in both his teens and his 40s and whether young playing time or old playing time is a better predictor of a Hall of Fame induction (and a postscript about Mike Trout’s golfing).

Audio intro: Dan Bern, "Opening Day"
Audio outro: Brittany Howard, "Short and Sweet"

Link to info on Opening Day re-airings
Link to Syndergaard injury post
Link to story on Syndergaard wanting to throw harder
Link to second story on Syndergaard wanting to throw harder
Link to story on Syndergaard’s surgery
Link to Sam on every team making the playoffs
Link to EW episode about every team making the playoffs
Link to Jayson Stark on short-season experiments
Link to article on seven-inning games
Link to Stat Blast covers competition
Link to video of Trout’s drive
Link to video of Trout’s chip shot
Link to 2013 article on Trout’s golfing
Link to 2017 article on Trout’s golfing
Link to article on Trout’s hole-in-one
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Opening day, opening day The visitors take the time and in the traveling

0:09.2

grade Opening day, opening day Single up the middle and

0:16.4

a batting, a thousand array Hello and welcome to episode 1519 of Effectively Wildly Baseball

0:28.3

Podcasts for Faggrass presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Evan Berg of the

0:33.4

ringer joined by a similar of the SPN Low Sam Happy What Would have been Opening Day

0:39.4

not that happy, unhappy What would have been Opening Day but there is going to be

0:43.8

a lot of baseball on TV and on various other platforms. I don't know whether

0:48.6

you have looked at the list of games that are going to be re-airred so MLB Network

0:53.7

is doing a marathon of memorable opening day games, five different games that

0:58.2

will be airing throughout the day and then various other outlets, Twitter, Facebook,

1:03.8

YouTube, other places, there will be games on every team will have a game that

1:09.2

their fans can watch somewhere or other at some point during the day. I'll link to the

1:13.5

schedule for those who haven't seen it and it's a lot of memorable games and

1:17.7

famous games and a lot of them are identified by the milestone, the thing that

1:22.8

happened in that game, the Felix Perfect Game, let's say, or sometimes it's just a playoff

1:29.6

game, this is ALCS game 7 or whatever, or it's the Verlander Nohider or something. So I saw

1:37.1

that Craig Calcutera was saying that he would rather not know what the game was and just turn

1:43.5

on whatever the channel is and see the game and not know that it was going to be a win and not

1:48.4

know that it was this memorable game that you are tuning in explicitly to see and I wondered whether

1:54.9

you would agree with that or whether that would even be a common opinion because I would think

1:59.9

most people probably like the idea of watching because they know that it is a certain famous game,

2:05.6

but on the other hand they know exactly what happens and how it ends and maybe they don't remember

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