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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1546: Best of the Best

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about viral particles, Mike Trout’s self-identified best at-bat, Carney Lansford’s possible link to Sir Francis Drake, sports card “breakers,” a perplexing story involving Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner, Wilbert Robinson’s five birthdays, why a love of playing baseball often translates to a love of anything connected to baseball, the […]

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0:00.0

There's a broken, locked down, out in your ship

0:04.3

Holding me on the table,

0:07.0

Tapping me down like a cradle

0:10.1

Drowning me out with an amen

0:12.9

There'll be heaven in all life's time

0:15.8

And everything's right for a long way

0:18.9

Long way from the best of the best of times

0:22.5

Long way, long way from the best of the best of times

0:28.1

Good morning and welcome to episode 1546

0:30.8

Effectively wild

0:32.0

The baseball podcast from fangraphs.com

0:34.3

Brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:36.8

I am Sam Miller, a BSPN, along with Ben Lindbergh

0:40.4

Hello, Ben

0:42.0

Hello

0:42.8

All right, I'm going to try to tell you this fun fact

0:45.7

Which is not very fun, but is in the form of a fun fact

0:49.0

And which is my favorite current fun fact

0:51.5

Not because it's actually my favorite

0:53.4

But because it's the most incredible one

0:55.8

That I've seen in a very long time

0:57.2

All right, so

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