Effectively Wild Episode 1722: One Month Without Sticky Stuff

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the length of the baseball season (and postseason) compared to other sports’, whether Shohei Ohtani ever grows frustrated with his mere-mortal teammates, the prolific predictions of the Rockies’ Mike Redmond, a possible modification to the zombie-runner rule, an update on the Marlins’ run differential, a story about a […]

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0:00.0	The sound of my heart is stopping the surprises
0:07.0	It's been so long, been so long
0:16.0	Time has a wind on the wind
0:20.0	But we're having strong, we're it's been so long, been so long
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1722 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graphed baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters
0:36.0	I'm Meg Raleigh of FanGrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ranger
0:40.0	Ben, how are you?
0:41.0	I'm alright, how are you?
0:43.0	I'm well, I think we should spread the baseball events out
0:48.0	Which ones?
0:49.0	All of them, they should happen farther apart from one another so that people are less sleepy, including me
0:55.0	Just all the games you want more off days, longer season?
0:59.0	No, I want, well I actually think that we would all benefit from just having the entire month of August off
1:05.0	Sure, like we should go European and do that but no, I mean like, you know, did you know that the trade deadline is next Friday?
1:12.0	Wow, is it that soon?
1:14.0	That's really soon, Ben, it sure is, sure is very soon
1:18.0	And the draft was really just last week which seems impossible, so the compression time seems to be accelerating
1:29.0	And I can't decide if it's age or if it's that they're actually closer together
1:34.0	I mean I know they are actually closer together but my experience of them seems heightened even still
1:39.0	But other than that, I'm well
1:42.0	Yeah, my how time flies, you know what does not fly the NBA playoffs, the NBA playoffs are interminable
1:49.0	And I say this is someone who doesn't watch the NBA playoffs for the most part but can't help but be aware of them
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