Effectively Wild Episode 1583: The Shift in Conversation

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley reflect on the recent protests, statements, and strikes across the sports world and in MLB specifically, touching on why some teams did or didn’t opt to play on Wednesday and Thursday, the messages that those decisions sent, and whether this week will mark a lasting break from MLB players’ past […]

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0:00.0	Solidarity, we stand in solidarity, where we rip up we're ready,
0:08.0	pushing all those up in, let our ground down, the next piece,
0:15.0	guys out, we're in this fight to win, then we win,
0:21.0	we're solidarity, we stand in solidarity,
0:27.0	where we rip up we're ready, pushing all those up in,
0:35.0	and we win.
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1583 of Effectively Wild,
0:42.0	a fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:45.0	I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I am joined as always by Ben Lemberger of the Ranger.
0:50.0	Ben, how are you?
0:51.0	Hello, not too terrible.
0:52.0	That's good.
0:53.0	You're not terrible because you don't work for the meds.
0:56.0	Yeah, that's part of the reason.
0:58.0	Ben, the meds sure did meds today.
1:01.0	So I've heard.
1:02.0	Yeah, I think we should start by saying the way that the meds meds was unfortunate
1:08.0	because you know, the bickering between GMs and ownership
1:14.0	it should not detract from like the more important things that meds players are saying
1:20.0	and doing to try to bring attention to the way that the team is responding to protest
1:25.0	all across the country.
1:26.0	So on the one hand, I always love a good meds thing.
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