Effectively Wild Episode 1565: Three Arms, You’re Out
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about 2020 season predictions, picking (and pricing) blueberries, and a cardboard cutout of Meg at T-Mobile Park, then open up the pre-pandemic mailbag and answer old but evergreen listener emails about the best type of game for a first-time baseball viewer to attend, whether the Cubs’ 2016 title came too soon, whether hitters should have to finish plate appearances with broken bats, how managers should handle players who are having good or bad days, which players would benefit most from a third arm, where to place a boost zone on the field, comparing the careers of Carlos Peña and Paul Konerko, whether Mike Trout could make the Hall of Fame twice, a parable about rooting for personal success versus rooting for a rival’s failure, and more.
Audio intro: Louis Prima, "Three-Handed Woman"
Audio outro: The Everly Brothers, "Three-Armed Poker-Playin’ River Rat"
Link to Meg’s blueberries tweet
Link to purchase a cardboard cutout
Link to the game the family from New Zealand saw
Link to article about reducing broken bats
Link to analysis of managers pulling pitchers
Link to analysis of game-to-game spin-rate variability
Link to FiveThirtyEight hot hand analysis
Link to article about Formula E attack mode
Link to video explainer of Formula E attack mode
Link to Formula E attack mode highlights video
Link to listener email archive
Link to stream Stove League
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | She's a three-handed woman, and she ain't no good for her. |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, she's a three-handed woman, and she ain't no good for you. |
| 0:17.0 | Now she's right hand in left hand in right hand in the under two. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1565 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:31.0 | Fangrass presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Minberg of The Ringer, joined by |
| 0:36.0 | Meg Rally of Fangrass, hello Meg. |
| 0:39.0 | That's how you tweet that you had submitted your predictions for the Fangrass staff |
| 0:44.0 | predictions post for the 2020 season, and I guess I won't ask you to spoil them, |
| 0:48.0 | and maybe we can do some season preview-y stuff next week, but did you go weird |
| 0:54.0 | with any of your picks, or did you stick with sort of chalky favorites, even though |
| 0:59.0 | it's a weird season? |
| 1:00.0 | Ben, I'm here to tell you that you missed the entirety of that dream show. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:06.0 | I picked blueberries, because I... |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, you picked blueberries. |
| 1:09.0 | I have blueberry bushes, and they were blueberries, so my projection for myself is in that I will |
| 1:19.0 | become a blueberry. |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:22.0 | I have so many blueberries. |
| 1:23.0 | Ah, yeah, pictures go with it. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:26.0 | The Willy Wonka person. |
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