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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1527: The Only Rule Revisited

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about how runs, hits, and errors became baseball’s standard scoreboard stats and the piecemeal way in which baseball evolves, then reminisce about and reevaluate the 2015 experiment that led to their 2016 book about running the independent league Sonoma Stompers, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our […]

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0:00.0

Yes, I got the all on around for the whole thing too.

0:10.0

I just need someone to judge against my doom.

0:19.0

To win my best just to change my destiny.

0:28.0

And I won't have no more errors of my mistakes.

0:35.0

Good morning and welcome to episode 1527 of Effectively Wild.

0:40.0

They saw podcasts at spangwraps.com.

0:42.0

Watch you buy our Patreon supporters on Sam Miller.

0:46.0

Yes, PN, along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer.

0:49.0

Hey Ben, hi.

0:50.0

Must you up any banter in the five days since you've been owned the banter desert?

0:55.0

No, not really.

0:56.0

I wrote an article at ESPN about the Runs, Hits and Heirs sequence that is so common in baseball.

1:04.0

Yep.

1:05.0

Particularly in box scores, on scoreboards, that sort of a thing.

1:09.0

And I, at some point, long in the past, somebody asked me what would be better stats to have in that box.

1:18.0

And that's what caused me to jot it down in the article ideas folder file.

1:24.0

And I looked and looked and looked and I could not find who did that.

1:28.0

And I just would like to note that if you're listening and you sent me that question, I would like to thank you.

1:33.0

I would have liked to have thanked you in the text, but I couldn't find it.

1:36.0

So just know that I'm very grateful.

1:38.0

Yeah.

1:39.0

So your point in the article was that this runs hits errors summary that we have on scoreboards and in box scores and on TVs and everywhere.

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