Effectively Wild Episode 1713: The Straw That Broke the Umpire’s Belt

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s borderline excessive consumption of Angels games and the latest, greatest exploits of Shohei Ohtani, who and what is to blame for the Yankees’ ongoing struggles, Gerrit Cole’s performance post-sticky stuff, Hector Santiago becoming the first pitcher ejected for alleged foreign substance use, a Triple-A umpire’s broken-belt ejection, […]

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0:00.0	I'm wild again, beguiled again, a simple ring, whimpering child again.
0:15.7	Be with Father and be with her, Am I?
0:25.7	Hello and welcome to episode 17, 13 of Effectively Wild, a Fangirl Spaceball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:33.4	I'm Meg Raleigh, a Fangirl, and I joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ringer.
0:37.1	Ben, how are you?
0:38.1	I'm doing alright. How was your weekend?
0:40.1	My weekend was kid.
0:42.1	Mine was too. I watched 9 hours of Angel Spaceball.
0:45.9	I have a problem, Meg. I don't know if it's a problem.
0:50.3	It's not a problem for me, really, but I watch basically every ending of every Angel's game now, and it's not a good team.
0:57.9	It's just not.
0:58.9	No.
0:59.9	But.
1:00.9	Worse lately.
1:01.9	Yeah, but it does employ one show, Hey Otani, and that's pretty much enough for me.
1:06.9	They were playing the race, so at least I was watching one good team.
1:09.9	Yeah.
1:10.9	And I got to see Wanderfrako, but he was not the main draw for me.
1:14.7	It's just Otani who, like, he used to be that I would watch his starts as a pitcher, and maybe I would check in on his played appearances as a batter, and then I would flip away.
1:25.7	Now I'm really just riveted.
1:27.9	I just watch all Angel's games so that I don't miss a moment of show Hey Otani, and trying to restrain myself here because Otani is in New York this week, which means this is probably not the last time we'll be talking about him.
1:39.7	But I just can't say enough about him.
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