Effectively Wild Episode 1570: The Season So Far
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss several takeaways from the first weekend of the MLB regular season, starting with the COVID-19 outbreak among the Miami Marlins, the apparent inadequacy of MLB’s health and safety protocols, and the season’s tenuous state, before segueing into game action including sac bunts, pitcher usage, parity, the pace of games, masks, the ways they’re watching, and much more.
Audio intro: Eric Matthews, "Start of the Meltdown"
Audio outro: Fleetwood Mac, "Keep on Going"
Link to Rosenthal and Stark on the Marlins
Link to Joel Sherman on the Marlins
Link to Mike Petriello on bunting in extra innings
Link to Ben Clemens on bunting in extra innings
Link to You Must Remember This episode
Link to Alibi Ike trailer
Link to Alibi Ike short story
Link to BP on Bard and Choi
Link to Shakeia Taylor on MLB’s tepid embrace of BLM
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| 0:00.0 | Given all of those prophecies never end |
| 0:11.0 | The start of the mouth down this time were dead |
| 0:18.0 | The end of the mouth down this time were dead |
| 0:25.0 | The end of the mouth down this time were dead |
| 0:31.0 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1570 |
| 0:34.0 | Effectively wild, the baseball podcast from fangraphs.com |
| 0:38.0 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Sam Miller, the S.P.N. |
| 0:42.0 | Along with Benlyn Berg of the Ringer of Love and Ben |
| 0:45.0 | Hello |
| 0:46.0 | We are going to talk about takeaways from the first weekend of the season |
| 0:51.0 | At this point, there's so much up in the air that it would not surprise me |
| 0:56.0 | Entirely if by the time we published this episode the season has been canceled |
| 1:00.0 | Nothing at this point would surprise me |
| 1:02.0 | No |
| 1:03.0 | I think the positive tests of a dozen marlins is somewhat shocking |
| 1:08.0 | Even I think for the pessimistic view of this season |
| 1:13.0 | I think that the idea was that with a lot of testing and with some social distancing |
| 1:19.0 | Would prevent 12 people from testing positive at once |
| 1:22.0 | I think that was the idea was that it could maybe be contained |
| 1:27.0 | And so just the fact that 12 people could test positive at once or maybe 14 people |
| 1:32.0 | Just really goes to show just how virulent this virus is, how out of control it is |
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