Effectively Wild Episode 1589: The Home Run Retriever
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the extraordinary stat lines of Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes, the role of randomness in baseball, the latest two-team half no-hitter, the Rays’ historic all-lefty lineup, the horrors of Red Sox pitching, the approaching end of the regular season, the states of the standings and playoff odds, the underperforming Reds, deceptive doubleheaders, why writers tend to lose their childhood fandom, the Phillies’ bad bullpen, and more. Then (51:32) they talk to Seattle Mariners souvenir manager Sean Guiney about fetching home run balls in empty ballparks, how MLB’s memorabilia authentication process works, what it’s like to attend an MLB game in 2020, how fake crowd noise sounds in person, and how the cardboard cutouts in the stands are holding up to the barrage of baseballs.
Audio intro: Rilo Kiley, "Smoke Detector"
Audio interstitial: Neil Finn, "Souvenir"
Audio outro: Boygenius, "Souvenir"
Link to Tony Wolfe on Burnes
Link to Ben on Keller’s bad luck
Link to story on the all-lefty lineup
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds page
Link to FanGraphs BaseRuns standings page
Link to Gallo home run ball
Link to Mariners auction site
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| 0:00.0 | I said danger to the smoke detector. |
| 0:07.0 | I said danger to the smoke detector. |
| 0:14.0 | I said danger to the smoke detector. |
| 0:22.0 | I said danger to the smoke detector. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1589 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft baseball podcast brought through by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fancraft's and I enjoy it as always by fanlumbergerfibranger. |
| 0:41.0 | Then how are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Doing okay, how are you? |
| 0:44.0 | It looks like you remember early in the film Parasite? |
| 0:50.0 | There's a few mcgation going on and they look like the stuff come in the windows. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. |
| 0:56.0 | It looks a bit like that in the city of Seattle right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Which you know, it's hard to know how to judge one's own position in the world relative to other people right now. |
| 1:06.0 | We are fortunate in that, like you know, I'm just sitting in the city safe and sound. |
| 1:11.0 | But it's eerie Ben. It's a little bit eerie on Friday. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I can imagine. Does it look like AT&T Park looked the other night when I would comp it to Blade Runner 2049? |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | That sort of orange look going or I guess it's not the right time of day to be orange, but what does it look like just dark? |
| 1:30.0 | It is neither that color nor is it that sort of dark and foreboding, but it just looks like a very bad air pollution kind of day, |
| 1:38.0 | which we don't typically get here. |
| 1:40.0 | And you know, it's uncomfortable if you're outside for any length of time at all. |
| 1:44.0 | So that's not the best. |
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