Effectively Wild Episode 1586: Duke it Out

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about a Giants fun fact, two home run facts that may or may not be fun, the ways in which the circumstances of his era shaped the late Tom Seaver’s legacy, and the latest highlights of extra-innings baseball, then answer listener emails about another possible implementation of the automatic-runner […]

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0:00.0	Matter timeime
0:14.4	was a liveliness
0:24.1	Hello and welcome to episode 1586 of Effectively Wild a baseball
0:34.2	podcast for fangrops presented by our patreon supporters I am Ben Menterick of the
0:39.0	Ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN a little Sam. Can I give you my favorite
0:43.7	fun fact today? Sure. The giants and the brewers currently are tied in the
0:48.6	standings. They have slightly different winning percentages because they play
0:51.5	different number of games but they're they're tied in the standings and like I
0:55.6	think they're maybe a half game out of the playoffs each and if you were to
0:59.8	take the brewers team leader in OPS plus he would rank ninth on the giants. The
1:09.5	giants we're talking about the giants here we're not talking about the Dodgers
1:13.0	we're not talking about the Yankees we're talking about the giants have eight
1:17.3	hitters better than the brewers best hitter this year. Wow yeah we've been
1:22.3	calling them the chaos giants on the ringer and Milpie show because it just
1:26.0	it looked like they weren't gonna be very entertaining or very good and then
1:29.3	they just keep winning and they blow people out and they have people having all
1:33.7	of these really surprising seasons especially offensively which is what
1:38.0	you're talking about so I don't know what to make of them but it's a pretty
1:41.2	wild season. Can you name two giants relievers? I mean can you name one but can
1:45.7	you name two giants relievers? Oh gosh. No yeah no I mean really I come from
1:53.4	I come from a giants household I live in the West Coast I have a lot of acquaintances
1:58.2	who talk about the giants if anybody should sort of like kind of know the
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