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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1533: It’s Baseball O’Clock Somewhere

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about beverage consumption, foreign baseball leagues’ potential for popularity in the U.S., and the life and death of legendary flamethrower Steve Dalkowski, who passed away this week. Then they talk to Rob Liu of CPBLStats.com (25:48) and Dan Kurtz of MyKBO.net (58:22) about two leagues that have beaten MLB back to action, Taiwan’s Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) and South Korea’s Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), touching on how their seasons have started, the best ways for American baseball fans to follow them, the players and teams to know, the aesthetic and stylistic differences between them and MLB, the histories and evolutions of the leagues, their fluctuating home run rates, their foreign-player presences, their embraces of sabermetrics, their engaging ballpark atmospheres, the CPBL’s playoff format, and the KBO’s bat flips.

Audio intro: Alec Benjamin, "Steve"
Audio interstitial 1: Sturgill Simpson, "Fastest Horse in Town"
Audio interstitial 2: James Chen, "Summer in Taiwan"
Audio outro: Nadan, "Play Ball"

Link to Pat Jordan on Dalkowski
Link to John Eisenberg on Dalkowski
Link to Joe Posnanski on Dalkowski
Link to Posnanski on Dalkowski again
Link to Steve Treder on Dalkowski
Link to Dom Amore on Dalkowski
Link to Dalkowski obit
Link to CPBL Stats
Link to info on CPBL home run rates
Link to Chin-hui Tsao’s Wikipedia page
Link to story about Tsao as a prospect
Link to Eleven Sports Taiwan
Link to CPBL streaming guide
Link to Jay Jaffe on the CPBL
Link to Marc Carig on CPBL broadcasts
Link to MyKBO
Link to MyKBO Stats
Link to bat flips feature
Link to Sung Min Kim on KBO ball de-juicing
Link to story about ESPN and KBO
Link to KBO streaming instructions
Link to Jaffe on the KBO
Link to order The MVP Machine

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0:00.0

Sometimes I feel like at them, because I've got more than I need

0:04.0

But even when I have it all, I want what's out of reach

0:08.0

Maybe I should learn my lesson, like Steve was talking to me

0:17.0

He said I wouldn't lie, you should not go to that tree

0:21.0

The serpent knows the apple grows from a forbidden seed

0:25.0

Oh, you want what you can't have, but you've got all the things you need

0:29.0

There was Adam, there was even there was Steve

0:33.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1533 of Effectively Wild

0:37.0

A fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:40.0

I'm Meg Rally of Fancrafts and I have joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer

0:44.0

Ben, how are you?

0:46.0

I'm not bad, how are you?

0:47.0

Doing all right

0:48.0

Yeah, drinking a lot of tea and I'm wondering if you can drink too much tea

0:53.0

Oh gosh, from my googling it seems like you can't really drink too much tea

0:57.0

For at least the kind of tea I'm drinking, I'm drinking green tea

1:01.0

And it sure seems like you cannot necessarily od on green tea

1:05.0

I don't know, don't take my word for that, ask Anthony Fauci or something

1:09.0

But I have not seen really hard evidence that I am hurting myself with the amount of tea I'm drinking right now

1:16.0

But it's hard not to when you're stuck inside all day

1:19.0

And you're just kind of going from your computer to the place where you have tea

1:24.0

to back to your computer and it's very easy to just keep refilling

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