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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1662: Season Preview Series: Angels and Royals

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about spring training games starting, Jeff Mathis batting cleanup in a spring training game (and once improbably batting fifth in a regular-season game), the latest reports about suspended Angels pitching coach Mickey Callaway, the postponement of the start of the Triple-A season, the outlook for attendance in Texas, and […]

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0:00.0

We never told them that much I've never knew a great deal

0:13.0

But he was helpless when the light had been on the face

0:26.0

Another never stayed in the place

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1662 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from Vangrass presented by our Patreon supporters

0:39.0

I am the member of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Vangrass, hello Meg

0:43.0

Hello spring training games have started and I'm not a huge spring training action person

0:49.0

I'm one of the people who is like happy for a day or two that it's back and you get to see some highlights

0:54.0

And then you kind of get bored again and wonder when opening day is that's me

0:58.0

Others are not that way others really enjoy the spring training baseball and I'm happy for them

1:03.0

And it's nice to have on as background at least is that where you are with it?

1:08.0

I'm delighted Ben

1:10.0

Yeah

1:11.0

I mean I don't think that my delight will last all the way to opening day

1:15.0

I expect that even after the winter and the strangeness of last year

1:21.0

that my sort of appetite for spring training will only be slightly extended

1:26.0

But it's just it's so nice

1:30.0

I felt fortunate because you know I've watched as I think I've said before

1:34.0

I watched a fair bit more winter ball than I have in previous year

1:37.0

So I did not feel baseball deprived in the way that I maybe have historically

1:42.0

But there's something about having an on during the day while I'm working

1:46.0

That's just the best

1:50.0

So yeah

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