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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1544: The Baseball Butterfly Effect

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the reliability of betting on baseball using the Grays Sports Almanac from Back to the Future Part II, then answer listener emails about a baseball broadcaster reality show, awarding bonuses for success in specific batter-pitcher matchups, and whether there’s any way to make pitchers into less terrible hitters, […]

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0:00.0

Life is funny, skies are sunny, these may hurt me

0:07.0

Funny, but no more me

0:15.0

I loved you, she'd be the one

0:21.0

I don't want to

0:25.0

So I'm here to live

0:32.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1544 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

0:41.0

Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, I'm the mentor of the ringer joined by Sam Miller of the SPN-O-Sant

0:48.0

Hey Ben, doing some emails today but you want to kick it off with a bit of binter?

0:52.0

I do, so I watch back to the future too, the other day

0:57.0

Solid baseball movie for a lot of reasons, Darryl Strawberry appears in a picture on a wall for instance

1:03.0

But I wanted to break down a little bit of the Grey's Almanac

1:07.0

So Grey's Almanac of course is a magazine, a little book, a little pamphlet

1:12.0

that purports to have the score of every sports event for the previous 50 years

1:17.0

and Biff delivers it to a younger version of himself, a younger version of himself

1:22.0

makes a lot of money and then alter the future so fine fine

1:26.0

So no matter we need to talk about it, you have money right we'll forget it

1:30.0

No, not money

1:34.0

Grey's sports Almanac

1:41.0

You heard him, girls, party's over

1:47.0

Start talking, Ken, what else you know about that book?

1:50.0

Now, here's my question

1:52.0

Okay, because this is a baseball, I'm not that interested in the movie

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