Effectively Wild Episode 1546: Best of the Best
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K 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 serendipitous discoveries that come from browsing newspaper archives, and a mysterious 1989 Cy Young vote.
Audio intro: Darlingside, "Best of the Best of Times"
Audio outro: The Birthday Crew, "Happy Birthday Wilbert"
Link to COVID-19 guide
Link to Trout video
Link to BP bobbleheads piece
Link to Emma on “breakers”
Link to order The MVP Machine
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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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