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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1536: Three Days at the Ballpark

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Facing the prospect of a season without fans in the stands, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley console themselves and fight baseball withdrawal by revisiting classic accounts of going to games. The authors of three revered books based on single games—Arnold Hano, the author of A Day in the Bleachers (1955), Dan Okrent, the author of […]

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0:00.0

Carol started laughing when the other people in right field got what field sucks?

0:06.0

Left field sucks

0:10.0

Jenny bought some crack a jack and got a water soluble tattoo of a bumblebee

0:16.0

Put it on her knee

0:18.0

Carol's side this game is dull then looked around the stands for her ideal man

0:28.0

She stared at a well-tanned blonde hair to fell as Pete Rose stole home plate to tie the score

0:36.0

Three straight singles and the picture bagging then Jenny noticed her high scurring was gone

0:44.0

For nine minutes all of a 13th row search till she said oh sorry it's in the car

0:50.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1536 of Effectively Wild a fan graph space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:58.0

I'm Meg Rallye of fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberger of the Ringer Ben How are you?

1:02.0

I'm doing very well because this is one of those days when I'm really happy to have the show

1:08.0

Because it gives us the excuse to talk to people whose work has brought us a lot of joy and to have them talk to each other

1:16.0

So we've got a fun conversation plan for today

1:18.0

We do we have a fun conversation we will spend some other conversation being

1:24.0

Whistful about baseball and I was doing some writing and I was shocking kind of events at development

1:32.0

That has not made itself known in quite a while and as in the course of that I had occasion to go back and watch part of

1:40.0

Like just like the least consequential parts I want to be very clear the least consequential parts of the red socks Yankee series in London last summer

1:49.0

And I don't know if you recall the the first game of that series that they played where they scored

1:56.0

Yeah, they scored roughly 7,000 runs between them and the game in question

2:02.0

Well, I recall it starting when I was eating breakfast because you know, funny time zones and I live in pacific time

2:08.0

And I had time and occasion to eat breakfast and then go to the gym and then meet a friend for beer and some snacks after the gym

2:20.0

And the game was still going on the game just followed me through that whole day and I remember that experience of it

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