Effectively Wild Episode 1597: The Frantic Wild Card Catch-up

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

During a brief respite between games, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller catch up on a week’s worth of wild card action, discussing the experience of being bombarded by an unprecedented amount of postseason baseball, the playoff run environment, and the state of postseason strategy, along with observations and takeaways from every wild card matchup and […]

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0:00.0	Yeah, they do that trust, every time we walk I could go right
0:07.2	But to find my star And all those crazy people
0:13.6	They're crazy times I can find the time
0:22.0	I can find the time for the time
0:26.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1597 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:32.1	Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters
0:35.0	And the member of the ringer joined by a similar of BSPN, hello Sam
0:39.5	Hello Ben, finally found the time to talk
0:43.0	It's been really hard to figure out when to do a podcast because there's been so much baseball
0:48.0	So much baseball, what a week
0:50.0	Yeah, it is a week
0:53.0	It feels like more than that
0:54.0	I keep feeling like we're deeper into the postseason than we are
0:58.0	And then I keep remembering we've been sprinting and sprinting to get to this point but we're still at the starting block
1:04.0	Like this is when the playoffs begin usually we still have that many games left and it feels like we've already been through
1:11.0	Just like a marathon this week
1:13.0	Yeah, I don't know do I need to bring this into it?
1:17.0	There was a day with eight games and people were really excited that there were eight games
1:21.0	And there were other days there was a day with four games and a day with five games
1:24.0	And I have to admit that I don't find the eight games to be any more overwhelming than the four or five
1:31.0	I know some people really like that feeling of chaos and overlap
1:36.0	But I can only really focus on the thing that I'm watching and I can only watch like the day that there were eight games
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