Effectively Wild Episode 1733: Corn-Fed Beef Boys

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Field of Dreams Game, “playing catch” vs. “having a catch,” scouting baseball movies, and a quibble with baseball in Twilight, answer listener emails about extending the Field of Dreams Game concept to other settings (and other baseball movies), the aesthetics of no-doubt dingers and wall-scrapers, saving the ball from a fluky first hit, and the difficulty of comparing per-game stats and statistical qualifiers across seasons with and without COVID-related rules, plus Stat Blasts on the players who’ve been called up and sent down most often in a single season and the longest streaks of matching results for two teams (and additional thoughts on Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Jo Adell, Jacob deGrom, the Dodgers’ division odds, trading catchers, and links on the show page).

Audio intro: Cub Scout Bowling Pins, "Heaven Beats Iowa"
Audio outro: The Ladybug Transistor, "Broken Links"

Link to Field of Dreams Game highlights
Link to Field of Dreams Game ratings
Link to Field of Dreams EW episode
Link to potential future settings for games
Link to Take Me In to the Ballgame podcast
Link to Twilight EW episode
Link to Tom & Jerry baseball scene
Link to expected home runs leaderboard
Link to video of Burger’s first hit
Link to Sam on ERA qualifiers
Link to FanGraphs Playoff Odds
Link to Craig Goldstein on Adell
Link to most optioned/recalled players
Link to Gerald Schifman on options use
Link to Eric Stephen on often-optioned players
Link to EW episode with Oliver Drake
Link to list of longest matching W-L streaks
Link to data on trade rates by position
Link to Ohtani on his pitching potential
Link to Ohtani WPA tweet

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0:00.0	Get on this, have a deep shower, that beautiful grass,
0:05.7	Cause how we do back?
0:10.0	Call your heart and she back, where under her back?
0:14.8	Have a deep shower, call your heart and she back, where under her back?
0:22.8	Have a deep shower, and it never seems quite real
0:29.2	Have a deep shower, and it never seems real
0:33.9	Hello and welcome to episode 1733 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:40.4	I'm Meg Rally of Fancrafts and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ranger.
0:44.4	But how are you?
0:45.4	I'm doing well, how are you?
0:46.8	Friday E-Mail Show!
0:48.8	Yeah, the other dream's game. Pretty good, right?
0:52.0	Pretty good!
0:53.2	There were a lot of haters out there.
0:55.2	I get that there's some grounds for hatred and some people just hate the movie,
1:00.0	Which I don't share the sentiment, but I understand it or some people thought it was overly gimmicky or schmaltsy or commercialized or overpriced,
1:08.6	Which it certainly was or catered to two old and audience.
1:11.8	There's a long list of complaints, but also it was pretty fun.
1:15.2	Yeah, I mean, I think that what we are learning is that good uniforms plus good baseball game,
1:23.1	Plus an enthusiastic John Smoltz equals a good time,
1:28.5	Like he just seemed like he was having a blast and uniforms were sharp.
1:32.9	We all got to think about corn, just like a lot.
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