Effectively Wild Episode 1717: The Bad Hatters

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Rays’ combined seven-inning hitless game, knuckleballer Mickey Jannis as a secret weapon in MLB The Show, Jacob deGrom and the near-impossibility of breaking the ERA record, Billy Hamilton and players with the highest highlight-to-value ratios, a six-man outfield against Joey Gallo, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the retelling […]

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0:00.0	In the end we'll leave it all behind.
0:06.0	In the end we'll leave it all behind.
0:14.0	Because the love I think comes right in the fire.
0:22.0	It's probably all in the mind.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1717 of Effectively Wild.
0:31.0	A Fagrass baseball talk has brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:34.0	on the Grail of Fagrass and are joined as always by Ben Lombard of the Writer Ben Curry.
0:39.0	I'm doing alright.
0:40.0	So this season we've had six solo no hitters, one combined no hitter,
0:45.0	one solo seven inning hitless start, which was technically not a no hitter.
0:50.0	And now courtesy of five Tampa Bay race pictures on Wednesday,
0:54.0	we've had a seven inning combined hitless game, which is not technically a no hitter.
1:00.0	Are you excited for the seven inning combined hitless game?
1:04.0	No.
1:06.0	This whole season has been an exercise and like, okay, do we still care about no hitters?
1:10.0	What about this permutation of no hitters?
1:12.0	What about this thing that had no hits, but it's not actually a no hitter.
1:16.0	We're lowering the bar over and over.
1:19.0	Yeah, I think the seven inning combined hitless game.
1:22.0	That's a little bit lower than I can limbo under personally.
1:25.0	Yeah, it's not on the floor, but it's in the vicinity.
1:30.0	It's hovering with pronounced precarity over the floor.
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