Effectively Wild Episode 1576: The “Is This Guy Good?” Game Returns
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about a realization about fake crowd noise discomfort, a disastrous start to a Derek Holland outing that recalled an earlier podcast discussion, whether Fernando Tatís Jr. will ever have a moment as remarkable as Fernando Tatís’s two-grand-slam inning, outfielders showing up pitchers, and more, then bring back the “Is This Guy Good?” Game, in which they attempt to guess whether randomly drawn relievers are having good seasons so far.
Audio intro: Boat, "Be As Good As You Want to Be"
Audio outro: The Hold Steady, "You Did Good Kid"
Link to Adell video
Link to episode with interview about fake crowd noise
Link to story about drone delay
Link to episode with home runs hypothetical
Link to Holland game play-by-play
Link to Tatís’s two-grand-slam inning
Link to Bumgarner/Tatís home run video
Link to first “Is This Guy Good?” Game episode
Link to Is This Guy Good? website
Link to Ben on the low BABIP mystery
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| 0:00.0 | What do you see? |
| 0:03.6 | The skylines close to me |
| 0:06.8 | And the three way may be shut down |
| 0:10.2 | And the two of us stuck in the same town |
| 0:13.8 | No way that we can't lead |
| 0:16.8 | To crazy, to be believing |
| 0:20.0 | Be as good as you want to be |
| 0:23.4 | Be as good as you want to be |
| 0:26.6 | Good morning and welcome to episode 1576 of Effectively Wild |
| 0:31.4 | The baseball podcast at andrats.com |
| 0:34.4 | Brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:36.4 | I'm Sam Miller, ESPN, along with Ben Lindbergh of the Ring |
| 0:40.4 | Hi, I'm zeroed in a little bit on a discomfort |
| 0:44.4 | With the crowd noise that I tried to talk about |
| 0:47.4 | But I wasn't quite actually clear on my discomfort |
| 0:50.4 | I focused on it, I addressed it this weekend |
| 0:53.4 | And I think I can be a little more clear now |
| 0:55.4 | The normal sequence is of a baseball game |
| 0:58.4 | His player hits the ball into the outfield |
| 1:01.4 | It lands for a hit |
| 1:03.4 | They show the outfield or fielding it |
| 1:06.4 | And then they cut to the runner sort of rounding first |
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