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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1541: Taken Out of Context

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the difficulty of interpreting the context of old articles about baseball and a man obsessed with smashing certain plate glass windows, then answer listener emails about what qualifies as hitting a ball out of the ballpark and eliminating force outs, plus Stat Blasts about the all-time defensive indifference […]

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Oh, and you're a long way from home

0:05.0

All of you thought you had were not your own

0:11.0

Even the time you came on somebody else's time

0:17.0

You drove right between the lights

0:24.0

Did you know that I wrote down it

0:28.0

For a son and a friend

0:31.0

I'm to take away the throne of the town

0:34.0

Same far away, but you're so silent

0:38.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1541

0:41.0

of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast

0:44.0

from FanGraphs presented by our Patreon supporters

0:47.0

I am Dan Lindbergh, the ringer, joined by Sam Miller of ESPN

0:52.0

doing some emails today, and hopefully we want to discuss first

0:55.0

Yeah, some stuff, a few things, a bunch of things

0:59.0

By complete coincidence today, I was reading an article from 1938

1:06.0

in the New York Times, and again, total coincidence

1:09.0

I read this sentence, this paragraph

1:12.0

When a club is struggling with a slump

1:15.0

There is no telling from which quarter fresh trouble crops up

1:18.0

Just when Lou Chiosa looked to be ready for a fresh start at second

1:23.0

What does Lou do? But grab a bottle of wintergreen

1:26.0

Thinking it's an eyewash

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