Effectively Wild Episode 1731: In Good Standings
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about their imperfections, follow up on flying horses, Justice Blackmun omitting Mel Ott from Flood vs. Kuhn, and a possible defense of pitcher hitters, then assess the state of the standings and playoff races, contemplate a position change for Fernando Tatis Jr., discuss the Field of Dreams Game, and consider a point in favor of robot umps and signs of spin-rate resurgence.
Audio intro: David Bowie, "Win"
Audio outro: Oh Pep!, "The Race"
Link to article about how horses fly
Link to article on Blackmun and Ott
Link to Ben on pitcher hitters/position-player pitchers
Link to post on Canseco pitching
Link to video of Holt pitching
Link to post on slowest possible pitches
Link to thread on slowest possible pitches
Link to FanGraphs Playoff Odds
Link to Mike Petriello on the Mets’ offense
Link to Petriello on the Jays’ offense
Link to Justin Choi on the Jays
Link to Rob Mains on team mobility
Link to Rob Arthur on the absence of superteams
Link to article on Tatis in the outfield
Link to Field of Dreams episode
Link to paper on umpire discrimination
Link to thread about umpire discrimination
Link to tweet about resurgent spin
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| 0:00.0 | Now your smile is spreading through |
| 0:07.0 | Since you tried not to lose |
| 0:11.0 | Since I lost so I'm still great |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, you're going to lose me |
| 0:23.0 | That's all you got to do |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1731 of Effectively Wild, a fan-grab space ball cup. |
| 0:32.0 | Woooah! It's a podcast band and it's brought to you by our |
| 0:36.0 | pictures and supporters. I'm Meg Raleigh of fan-grab, and I'm trying to |
| 0:40.0 | always play Ben Lumberg of the Ring or Ben, how are you? |
| 0:43.0 | I'm good, I like that you always want to leave in the false |
| 0:46.0 | It's really commitment to authenticity. |
| 0:49.0 | We all mess up sometimes and we leave it in |
| 0:52.0 | And you know Dylan does so much to smooth things out and make us sound |
| 0:57.0 | as if every thought we've had is smart right off the bat |
| 1:01.0 | But they're not all winners and I think it's useful for people to know that |
| 1:05.0 | even though we've recorded many episodes of the show, we sometimes go |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, it's otherwise people might think we're too perfect |
| 1:13.0 | That is probably what people think about us |
| 1:15.0 | They're just so well spoken, they just never stumble over anything |
| 1:19.0 | Everything, every take is correct, like it's intimidating really to listen to us |
| 1:24.0 | So it's probably better that we be relatable. |
| 1:26.0 | Just you know, we don't actually screw up at every now and then we pretend to have |
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