Effectively Wild Episode 1629: One Hundred Years of Gratitude

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about secret baseball-playing robots and non-secret baseball-rooting robots, how coverage of NFL scoring changes compares to coverage of MLB scoring changes, and Meg’s research about changes in access to minor league games, follow up on the Mets signing James McCann, the Phillies hiring Dave Dombrowski, and the significance of […]

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0:00.0	I got a whole lot of things to sing about.
0:04.4	I got a whole lot of things to say.
0:08.1	Like I love you and I need you every night and day.
0:15.5	I got a whole lot of things I want to do.
0:19.2	I got a whole lot of dreams to dream and I won't give you.
0:24.7	Give it side me.
0:27.5	Every step away.
0:29.7	Hello and welcome to episode 1629 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:35.6	Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:38.2	I am Ben Minberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Vangrass.
0:41.6	Hello Meg.
0:42.4	Hello.
0:43.3	So we spoke a few episodes ago about the Fukuoka Softbank Hauks and how they
0:48.3	have dominated NPP for the past several years.
0:51.1	And we also talked briefly about Boston Dynamics and their sort of creepy robots.
0:56.6	And both of those threads came together for me today because I read a story that
1:01.3	informed me that Hyundai has just purchased Boston Dynamics for a billion plus
1:06.5	dollars from Softbank, the company that owns the Softbank Hauks.
1:11.9	And to make matters more interesting, Softbank bought Boston Dynamics from Google in 2017.
1:19.2	Oh boy.
1:19.8	That was the first year of the Hauks current four-year streak of winning the Japan
1:25.5	series every year.
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