Effectively Wild Episode 1733: Corn-Fed Beef Boys

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

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 […]

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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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