Effectively Wild Episode 1558: You Have to Tip Your Cap

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the backlash to MLB’s use of the sponsored term “summer camp,” four players’ decisions to opt out of the season, a heartfelt, thought-provoking post by Ian Desmond, and the official cancellation of the minor league season. Then they explain the Negro Leagues theme of this week of Effectively […]

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0:00.0	1 hundred years, 1 hundred years, the break me, what I break them to.
0:15.0	I win this once for the break.
0:19.0	I miss one.
0:22.0	This for you.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1558 of Effectively Wild,
0:28.0	the fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:31.0	I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lumberger of the Ringer.
0:35.0	Ben, how are you?
0:36.0	Not too terrible. How are you?
0:38.0	I'm okay.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.0	Well, that's better than terrible.
0:42.0	Yeah. What are we talking about today, Ben?
0:45.0	Well, there has been some baseball news and...
0:48.0	It is terrible.
0:49.0	Yeah, as I expected, it's not going to be the most positive week for news about baseball.
0:54.0	It's just players either reporting or not reporting to whatever we're calling the sequel to Spring Training.
1:00.0	Some people are very upset that people have started calling it Summer Camp,
1:04.0	which I feel like Jeff started that, right?
1:06.0	I don't know if he started it, but that was the first tweet I saw.
1:10.0	Jeff dubbed the second Spring Training, which is not actually taking place in Spring, Summer Camp.
1:16.0	And now it's like the official name is Summer Camp and it has a sponsor and everything,
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