Effectively Wild Episode 1631: Ducks on the Walden Pond
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up briefly on their recent Scott Boras banter, then answer listener emails about what a manager has to do to get fired because of a single game, possible scenarios in which Mookie Betts enters the Hall of Fame representing the Red Sox instead of the Dodgers, whether nature excursions could be beneficial to teams, what baseball would be like with weight classes for players, which party or parties to root for in conflicts between MLB and the minor leagues, how many players they could recognize from their mechanics if they saw them only as stick figures, and more, plus a Stat Blast about the most itinerant journeymen.
Audio intro: Super Furry Animals, "Happiness is a Worn Pun"
Audio outro: Jamestown Revival, "Journeyman"
Link to Lucien Favre story
Link to Jay’s post on Betts
Link to Cueto graphic
Link to study on the southpaw advantage
Link to Francona’s comments about Cleveland
Link to journeyman Stat Blast data
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hiaimer |
| 0:21.5 | and welcome to episode 1631, mana potateed tree questo |
| 0:27.1 | The Endgrass presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:29.9 | I am the member of the Ringer joined by the Meg Rally of the Endgrass O-Met. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello. |
| 0:35.3 | How are you? |
| 0:36.3 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:37.3 | Okay, we have a refollow up in our forest banter for last time. |
| 0:41.7 | Yes, listener. |
| 0:43.7 | Dakota Bates emailed us and said, |
| 0:46.3 | I think you all missed the point of Boris's comment. |
| 0:49.1 | It seemed like a pretty obvious play on words with the name of Angels' new GM Perry |
| 0:53.3 | Menajian, which sounds kind of like Perry Mason. |
| 0:57.1 | So he would ostensibly be the one solving the angel struggles. |
| 1:00.5 | Love the show. |
| 1:01.5 | Hope that helps. |
| 1:02.5 | And Dakota, I appreciate your email, but I got a little advice, a little advice from me. |
| 1:07.5 | A noted punster to you, Dakota. |
| 1:10.3 | And also our listening audience. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm most importantly Scott Boris, which is to say that it is very easy in the pun game. |
| 1:17.5 | You know, when one is engaged in the craft of punning to get overly fixated on the way |
| 1:23.9 | that the words sound, and that's really important in any kind of wordplay, right? |
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