Effectively Wild Episode 1677: Fully Armed and Operational
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley convene an emergency podcast to discuss Shohei Ohtani’s exhilarating, terrifying, and historic Sunday Night Baseball performance against the White Sox (which veered from triumph to near-tragedy), touching on Ohtani’s titanic home run and resounding bat crack, the aesthetics of his stuff, his Statcast superstardom, his narrow escape from injury after a controversial move (or non-move) by Joe Maddon, and more, plus ruminations on Ty Buttrey’s farewell.
Audio intro: Jane’s Addiction, "Superhero"
Audio outro: Of Montreal, "Let’s Do Everything for the First Time Forever"
Link to video of Ohtani game
Link to video of Ohtani homer
Link to Baseball Savant Gamefeed page
Link to Sam on dropped third strikes
Link to video of 2005 Pierzynski play
Link to Fabian Ardaya on Ohtani’s spin rates
Link to Ohtani outing fun facts
Link to MLB.com Ohtani outing game story
Link to ESPN Ohtani outing game story
Link to Alden Gonzalez column
Link to list of pre-Ohtani games with no DH
Link to Gary Ashwill on Negro Leagues games
Link to Ardaya on Walsh
Link to Walsh’s helmet highlight
Link to SI piece about “as so often happens”
Link to story on leading off inning after great play
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And you smiling by my table |
| 0:02.4 | Have a cold of everyone I need |
| 0:04.8 | Beautiful, my damn body |
| 0:07.0 | What I have been in and I see |
| 0:09.4 | My mind I've been in pain, bro |
| 0:11.6 | In the memory you overflow |
| 0:14.0 | I wanna be your superhero |
| 0:16.3 | I even have a chumbo, bro |
| 0:18.5 | I'm a... yeah |
| 0:21.5 | You have the heart to have |
| 0:24.2 | I'm a... |
| 0:26.4 | I need you dead, burning |
| 0:30.8 | You I need you dead, burning |
| 0:35.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1677 |
| 0:39.4 | of Effective Reality |
| 0:40.7 | Facebook podcast from Bandgrass |
| 0:42.5 | presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:45.0 | I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer |
| 0:46.9 | joined by Meg Raleigh of Bandgrass |
| 0:49.2 | Hello Meg |
| 0:50.0 | Hello |
| 0:50.8 | I may not survive this season |
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