Effectively Wild Episode 1550: Make Me Your Worst Offer

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the continued standstill over starting the season, MLB’s series of superficially different, substantively identical, and equally unproductive proposals, public perceptions of the owners’ and players’ positions, the difference between a 50-game season and an 80-game season, and how the “negotiations” seem destined to end, plus a Stat Blast […]

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0:00.0	My friends say all the green, my friends say all the green,
0:04.0	Even to our feet, even to our debris,
0:08.0	And secret we believe, and secret we believe,
0:12.0	We're nothing, nothing, nothing that we need.
0:17.0	No, oh, oh, it's my only offer,
0:20.0	Stifled coffins of myself,
0:24.0	Uh-oh, uh-oh, or someone else.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1550 of effectively wild
0:31.0	a fan graph's baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:35.0	I'm Meg Rally of Fan Graphs, and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ringer.
0:39.0	Ben Horeal.
0:40.0	I'm doing alright. We have not talked in a couple weeks.
0:43.0	Yeah, it's been, it's been a minute, nice to hear your voice, dude.
0:46.0	Yes, yours too. And in just a moment, we will hear Eric Long and Higgins voice.
0:51.0	He will be joining us to talk about the very abbreviated MLB draft
0:56.0	that took place this week before we get to Eric.
1:00.0	I don't know, there's almost nothing new to say about the prospect for a season
1:05.0	when we talked two weeks ago.
1:07.0	There is no deal to start the season,
1:09.0	and now that we're talking, there is no deal to start the season.
1:12.0	Just before we started recording,
1:15.0	the latest offer was put forth by MLB to the Players Association.
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