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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1603: Match Points

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller banter about a baseball ad on the radio, revisit the topic of how often teams win when they outhomer their opponents, discuss the brand of baseball on display this postseason, share a Stat Blast about the percentage of runs scored on homers and investigate whether all-or-nothing baseball is as problematic as it’s made out to be, then examine a pair of standout postseason umpiring efforts and answer listener emails about whether groundball pitchers might make a comeback and what should constitute a “match point” in baseball.

Audio intro: Cordovas, "The Game"
Audio outro: They Might Be Giants, "I’ve Got a Match"

Link to Ben on home runs this postseason
Link to Ben on learning to accept strikeouts
Link to Ben on October baseball
Link to article about increase in solo homers
Link to Ben on umpire perfect games
Link to Umpire Scorecards on Pat Hoberg
Link to Close Call Sports on John Tumpane
Link to 2015 article on umpires improving
Link to 2016 article on umpires improving
Link to Matt Trueblood on the Dodgers’ bullpen
Link to Bill James on groundball pitchers
Link to article about groundball pitchers being overrated
Link to Seinfeld tweet about the “final strike”
Link to FanGraphs playoff coverage

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0:00.0

Spinning your wheels again Throw it in a way

0:09.0

Think it's time, time again

0:18.0

Think it's time, time again

0:26.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1603 of Effectively Wild to a baseball podcast from

0:34.0

Fengaraffes presented by our Patreon supporters and the member of the ringer joined by Sam Miller of PSPN

0:41.0

Lo Sam. Of course if you're having to come up with advertising coffee or a commercial on radio baseball

0:50.0

Of course you can always fall back on that tried and true technique of having a

0:54.0

Just sprinkling some baseball phrases in

0:57.0

Uh-huh, you know how that goes

0:59.0

Just put a little baseball in there

1:01.0

Turn your product into a metaphor for a baseball game that sort of a thing

1:05.0

And you might have wondered whether there are any products that this does not work for

1:10.0

That the sort of I don't know lightheartedness of a baseball pun might not actually apply

1:17.0

And the answer is no, there is an Atlanta health care system that begins its radio ads this postseason with

1:24.0

COVID-19 may have thrown the world a curveball

1:27.0

But they still knock safe expert health care out of the park

1:33.0

So then they go on to list some other baseball puns

1:38.0

Like infections don't belong on your team

1:43.0

For instance

1:44.0

And uh, and that worked for you

1:47.0

Uh, I, I, I, I don't know what it did to me

1:51.0

I think that it has, I will now, I think for the rest of time every time I hear a radio ad that

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