Effectively Wild Episode 1580: Meet Me Halfway

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about the three-year anniversary of the Effectively Wild outing to see the total solar eclipse at a minor league game in Oregon and whether the backlash to the kerfuffle over Fernando Tatis Jr.’s 3-0 grand slam made this week a watershed for MLB’s unwritten rules, then answer listener emails […]

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0:00.0	You can drive my car, see how it grows.
0:08.0	Feel a new energy as it quietly goes.
0:18.0	Just sing it so long, change the world.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1580 of Effectively Wildly,
0:31.0	baseball podcast from Bandraffs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:35.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of Ringer, one by similar of the SVN-0SAN.
0:40.0	Did you know that today is three years since the eclipse?
0:45.0	Ah, I said right.
0:46.0	Yeah, well sort of, Friday is three years since the eclipse itself.
0:50.0	Today is three years since I showed up at Jeff's apartment in Oregon.
0:55.0	And I met Jeff for the first and only time in real life.
0:59.0	And I met Meg for the first and only time in real life.
1:02.0	And on Friday I met, well on the eclipse day, I met Dylan for the first and only time.
1:07.0	That's right, in real life.
1:08.0	And you know, I have been thinking about that day a lot today.
1:11.0	I was talking to my daughter about the eclipse.
1:14.0	And I don't think that there's maybe any day of my life that is more unlike what we're living in right now.
1:22.0	What we're doing right now.
1:23.0	We all traveled across the country in planes and trains to crowd in to a minor league stadium where there are no minor league stadiums open right now, except one in Buffalo.
1:39.0	With other fans, there are no stadiums with fans right now so that we could stare at the sun.
1:44.0	You and I and Jesse all slept in the same car overnight.
1:49.0	We then drove back from the eclipse and sat in extremely crowded cramped conditions.
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