Effectively Wild Episode 1742: The Race (and Series) of the Season
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley talk to The Athletic’s Grant Brisbee and SB Nation’s Eric Stephen about the last series of the regular season between the tied-for-first-place Dodgers and Giants, the historic greatness of their race, the state of (and outlook for) their respective rosters, the strengths and weaknesses of each team, their secret sauces, each team’s most pleasant surprise, the highlight of their season series so far, what went wrong for the Padres, how the Dodgers and Giants compare as playoff teams, their toughest potential postseason opponents, the biggest offseason questions facing the two teams, the NL West’s future, and more, plus a postscript on Ben’s top 10 hopes for the the final month of the regular season.
Audio intro: Beulah, "Battle Cry of the West"
Audio outro: The Mountain Goats, "We Do it Different on the West Coast"
Link to FanGraphs series preview
Link to Andrew Baggarly’s series preview
Link to Grant on the gift of Dodgers-Giants
Link to Eric on past Dodgers-Giants races
Link to Eric on the 1971 race
Link to Grant on the teams’ 100-win paces
Link to Grant on the Giants being “lucky”
Link to Grant on SF’s best-case scenario
Link to Fabian Ardaya on Bellinger
Link to Dan S. on September projections
Link to BaseRuns standings
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to Ken Rosenthal on the Giants’ secret
Link to Tauchman/Pujols play
Link to Defensive Efficiency leaderboard
Link to True Blue LA podcast
Link to Baggs & Brisbee podcast
Link to latest Ringer MLB Show episode
Link to list of 1st/2nd-place WAR gaps
Link to article on Scherzer not reaching base
Link to article on Franco reaching base
Link to article on Tatis and HR/SB leaders
Link to Ben and Meg’s SSAC panel podcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good, good. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1742 of Effectively Wilds, a baseball podcast from Vangrass presented |
| 0:40.1 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:41.8 | I am Ben Memberg of the Ring Earth, join Zang Meg Rally of Vangrass, hello Meg. |
| 0:46.3 | Hello. |
| 0:47.3 | We are joined today by two former colleagues, not of us, but of each other, current rivals |
| 0:52.8 | sort of, and in federate punters, the combined punning power of the people on this podcast |
| 0:58.3 | is scary to contemplate. |
| 1:00.0 | Hopefully, there will be too many puns today. |
| 1:02.3 | The great Grant Brisbee of the Athletic, hello Grant. |
| 1:05.4 | Hello Ben, hello Meg, and no hello for Eric. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, you spoiled it. |
| 1:11.6 | We also have Eric Steven of Espination and True Blue LA, hello Eric. |
| 1:16.6 | Hello, I'm finding it hard to live up to that, you know, intro, so I'm going to probably |
| 1:21.3 | have the least amount of puns on this entire episode as a result. |
| 1:25.6 | That's not a bad thing. |
| 1:26.6 | That is a distinction that you should probably try to hold. |
| 1:29.4 | So we are all here today to talk about the two best teams in baseball, or at least the |
| 1:34.3 | two that have won the most games, because they are facing off this weekend in one of the |
| 1:39.0 | most exciting regular season series I can recall. |
| 1:42.4 | Certainly one of the most exciting early September series I can't recall getting very excited |
| 1:47.2 | about many of those, but I am extremely excited about this weekend's matchup between |
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