Effectively Wild Episode 1666: The Number of the Banana

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the new baseball format embraced by the Savannah Bananas, the experimental rules MLB is imposing at various levels of the minor leagues in 2021, and whether they would want to live in a ballpark (like a man who claims to have lived for three years in Veterans Stadium), […]

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0:00.0	Oh yes, we have no bananas.
0:05.0	We have no bananas today.
0:09.0	We've got string beans and onions and big juicy lemons
0:14.0	and all kinds of fruit and say.
0:18.0	We've got an old fashioned tomato.
0:23.0	A long island potato.
0:27.0	Oh yes, we have no bananas.
0:32.0	We have no bananas today.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1666 of Effectively Wild,
0:41.0	a baseball podcast from Bambraffs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:45.0	I'm Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Rally of Bambraffs, hello Meg.
0:50.0	Hello, pot of the bees.
0:53.0	Yeah, exactly.
0:58.0	We are taking a break from our endless season preview series today to do some emails
1:02.0	and just reviewing our recent emails to pick some for the show.
1:06.0	I was struck yet again by how many of them are about changing baseball
1:10.0	and how different baseball would be if it were different.
1:14.0	It's really a high percentage of the questions we get,
1:18.0	which I guess is not surprising because we do kind of cater to that interest
1:22.0	and we don't get a lot of questions about well, what if baseball were exactly the same
1:26.0	and nothing changed?
1:28.0	How would it be? We already know.
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