Effectively Wild Episode 1711: Strip Search
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about MLB’s much-maligned All-Star Game uniforms and a pair of odd games, discuss the highs and lows of the first few days of MLB’s enforced foreign-substance ban (with special attention to Max Scherzer, Joe Girardi, and Sergio Romo), review Wander Franco’s debut and note the less-hyped arrivals of Lars Nootbaar and knuckleballer Mickey Jannis, relate a Jesse Winker home-run prediction, and close by exploring the ways in which the first-place Houston Astros, to the dismay of many Astros haters, are still very good.
Audio intro: Slothrust, "New Red Pants"
Audio outro: The Donnas, "Hot Pants"
Link to ASG uniforms
Link to Angels game story
Link to Nats-Phillies game story
Link to Manfred on sticky-stuff enforcement
Link to Rizzo on Girardi
Link to video of Scherzer and Romo
Link to video of Ohtani inspection
Link to Simpsons scene
Link to Ben on Jannis and the knuckleball
Link to Javier’s headshot
Link to Zach Kram on the Astros
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| 0:00.0 | I've got new red pants, got them from a stranger, yeah |
| 0:07.0 | I look so attractive that it could kill you, it could kill me too |
| 0:14.0 | I've got scoliosis, I need silenol, help me break this fee |
| 0:30.0 | I've thrown me a curveball swing at that curve ball, yeah |
| 0:34.0 | You make a swing? |
| 0:36.0 | Oh sure |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, I don't know |
| 0:39.0 | Leave it all in Dylan, hello and welcome to episode 17-11 |
| 0:43.0 | of effectively wild or a города baseball podcast |
| 1:03.0 | enjoy the child |
| 1:04.0 | one and I don't diswives |
| 1:12.7 | back and I have watched five innings of baseball since then. Which innings were they was it all in one |
| 1:20.7 | game or was it a sampling of games? They were mostly yesterday. I watched some of the Dodgers |
| 1:27.4 | Padres game, but only some of it, you know, and then I was doing other stuff. So yeah, baseball, |
| 1:35.5 | it happens. Some of you. Truly wild games that you have missed. There was the Weird Nationals |
| 1:40.9 | Phillies game where both of their bullpen's and blue multiple leads. And apparently it was the |
| 1:46.7 | first game ever where both teams hit A Grand Slam and a three run homer, which I think surprised |
| 1:51.9 | a lot of people myself included. Yeah. And there was the extremely weird Angels Giant's game where |
| 1:59.1 | Otani started and pitched well, but because the Angels surrendered the DH to let him pitch and hit |
| 2:05.4 | and because I think their bench was short-handed to begin with, because Justin Upton had a back |
| 2:10.6 | issue. And then all hell broke loose and the game went 13 innings. And they eventually had to |
| 2:17.9 | call in Taylor Ward to catch because Kurt Suzuki got hurt and Griffin Canning was playing the |
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