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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1591: More Like Expanded Nayoffs

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller discuss Rob Manfred’s desire to make the 16-team playoff format permanent and how the absence of off days will affect the 2020 postseason, then conduct a Stat Blast quiz about the best same-named teammate duos, plus a non-quiz Stat Blast about pitcher usage in seven-inning doubleheaders. Audio intro: Rhett Miller, "Permanent […]

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No back to sleep, no back to sleep

0:03.6

So gotta want to give that just a picture

0:10.9

Don't wake me up, you might do permanent damage

0:17.4

Permanent damage

0:19.6

Permanent damage

0:22.8

Permanent damage

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1591 of Effectively Wild, the e-base Wild Podcasts and

0:41.7

photographs presented by our Patreon supporters and member of the ringer joined by ESPN's

0:47.5

Sam, hello Sam

0:49.0

Hello

0:50.3

Can I ask you a philosophical question about the playoffs?

0:54.4

I want to know whether you think it is better for baseball, it's more interesting,

0:59.0

it's more practically exciting however you want to define it, that the playoffs be the same

1:04.9

as the regular season in as many respects as possible or different from the regular season

1:10.5

in some important respects, let's say, because this is a conversation that we're all having

1:16.4

this week because we got some news about when and how this year's playoffs are going to happen

1:23.2

So there are going to be two neutral sites in Texas and California and the World Series is going to

1:30.8

take place in the Rangers New Park in Arlington and that is not surprising we sort of knew that

1:38.0

for a while now that there would be quasi bubbles for that but what maybe had not been realized

1:43.8

and had not been announced until just this week is that there aren't going to be any off days

1:49.0

until the World Series so the first three rounds will just be played every day continuously

1:54.9

and it makes sense that that's the case because typically you have those days for travel and now

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