Effectively Wild Episode 1604: The Plans for Fans in Stands
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a podcast interview that may hinge on the Rays winning the World Series, John Smoltz’s on-air app suggestion, the latest developments in the Dave Roberts and Clayton Kershaw playoff narratives, the Dodgers and Astros on the brink, the long-term outlook for Randy Arozarena, encouraging catcher glove gestures, the White Sox firing Rick Renteria, and Billy Beane possibly calling it quits as a baseball executive. Then (44:00) they bring on Bradford William Davis of the New York Daily News to discuss why and how MLB proceeded with plans to sell tickets to the NLCS and World Series, whether the league has lived up to its public health commitments, the forecast for attendance in 2021, and how and why Bradford is planning to cover the World Series in person.
Audio intro: Randy Newman, "Naked Man"
Audio interstitial: Sam Evian, "Health Machine"
Audio outro: Paul McCartney, "Hunt You Down/Naked/C-Link"
Link to article about “OnlyFanGraphs”
Link to Jeff’s tweet
Link to BP on Kershaw and Roberts
Link to Ben on Roberts in 2019
Link to Meg on the Braves’ brief embarrassment
Link to Ben Clemens on Arozarena
Link to WSJ report about Beane
Link to Ray Ratto on Beane
Link to Susan Slusser on Beane
Link to Brian Phillips on Beane and Morey
Link to story about Renteria
Link to Bradford on MLB and public health officials
Link to Bradford on MLB and community COVID testing
Link to Evan Drellich on fans in the stands
Link to Stephanie Apstein on fans in the stands
Link to Hannah Keyser on fans in the stands
Link to Craig Calcaterra on MLB’s attendance survey
Link to CPBL outfielder video
Link to FanGraphs playoff coverage
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| 0:00.0 | All down the shade, cuck's calling Turn off the light for us here |
| 0:07.0 | Running hard down the street, Do the snow and the sleet |
| 0:12.0 | On the coldest night over here Be well, be well, be well, all the naked men |
| 0:21.0 | Be well, be well, be well, all the naked men |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1604 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fancrafts and our join is always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ring or Ben How are you? |
| 0:39.0 | Doing okay, how are you? |
| 0:41.0 | Doing okay |
| 0:42.0 | Alright, so we have a guest today, we will be talking to Bradford William Davis of the New York Daily News about the fact that they're fans and stands don't know if you've noticed |
| 0:51.0 | There are lots of fans at some of these baseball games, the NLCS one specifically and the World Series ones next week |
| 0:59.0 | And there have been 11,500 tickets sold to each of the games at Global I feel that's 28% capacity |
| 1:06.0 | Bradford has done a lot of reporting about MLB and public health all season |
| 1:11.0 | And so we're going to talk to him about how that's being handled and yet look for next season |
| 1:16.0 | What it will be like to cover the World Series because he is hoping to do that so we'll get into all of that in a little while |
| 1:23.0 | We are recording on Friday afternoon before the baseball games so by the time some of you hear this |
| 1:30.0 | Someone may have one appenant, perhaps some ones may have one appenant right now we don't know |
| 1:36.0 | But there's a lot at stake not just in general sense but for this podcast specifically I want to draw your attention to a tweet from about a month ago |
| 1:45.0 | So on September 18th a tweeter named Brian Height tweeted at one Jeff Sullivan former co-host of this podcast and current Tampa Bay raise employee |
| 1:55.0 | And Brian said will you go uneffectively wild if the raise win the World Series? |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah |
| 2:01.0 | And Jeff said I'd probably record it naked |
| 2:04.0 | So there's a lot riding on the outcome of this LCS and also the World Series |
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