Effectively Wild Episode 1704: How the Foreign-Substance Crackdown Could Go
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter (sans spoilers) about baseball movie A Quiet Place Part II, Eric Sogard sliding over first base, a Travis Jankowski TOOTBLAN, Miguel Sanó repeatedly predicting success, and Jesse Winker raking, then consider whether it’s actually “unfortunate” that the first true two-way player in ages is as good as Shohei Ohtani, answer listener emails about the two-way-player Mendoza Line and whether pitcher Ohtani or hitter Ohtani would win a head-to-head matchup, and conclude with an in-depth discussion about what might happen and what we’ll learn if MLB does crack down on foreign-substance usage.
Audio intro: Dawes, "Crack the Case"
Audio outro: Bachelor, "Aurora"
Link to Sogard slide
Link to Jankowski TOOTBLAN
Link to Twins triple play
Link to 2017 Sanó triple play prediction
Link to 2021 Sanó triple play prediction
Link to Sanó 3-homer-game prediction
Link to Sanó 2014 season prediction
Link to list of players with multiple 3-homer games
Link to Devan Fink on Winker
Link to Jeremy Frank tweet about Ohtani
Link to R.J. Anderson on Ohtani vs. Ohtani
Link to video of Ohtani facing himself in VR
Link to Buster Olney on MLB’s crackdown
Link to Ken Rosenthal on Joe West and MLB
Link to Bauer’s Players’ Tribune piece
Link to Bauer on morals
Link to Dylan Hernández on Bauer and the Dodgers
Link to Fabian Ardaya on Bauer and spin
Link to The Athletic on Spider Tack
Link to Ben on foreign substances
Link to SI on foreign substances
Link to Travis Sawchik on foreign substances
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| 0:00.0 | Ignoring all of your memories |
| 0:03.0 | Believe in all of your romance |
| 0:07.0 | With their endless database |
| 0:14.0 | I want to sit with my enemies |
| 0:17.0 | And say we should have done this soon |
| 0:21.0 | While I look them in the face |
| 0:30.0 | Maybe that would crack the case |
| 0:33.0 | Lo and welcome to episode 1704 |
| 0:37.0 | Effectively wild a baseball podcast |
| 0:39.0 | from Bandgraff's presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:42.0 | I am Ben Lemberg of The Ringer |
| 0:44.0 | joined by Meg Rally of Bandgraff's Hello Meg |
| 0:46.0 | Hello |
| 0:47.0 | I went to a booby this weekend in an actual theater |
| 0:50.0 | Just like the before times |
| 0:52.0 | Theaters are still standing |
| 0:54.0 | I went with my wife to see a quiet place part 2 |
| 0:57.0 | I'm not hyper romantic about movie theaters |
| 1:00.0 | I like them, but I'm also perfectly happy to watch a movie at home |
| 1:03.0 | But from time to time there's something you want to say |
| 1:05.0 | That you can't stream yet |
| 1:07.0 | And we are returning to regular activities |
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