Effectively Wild Episode 1753: Bringing Up Baby
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about what Shohei Ohtani might mean for the Mariners’ slight playoff chances and Riley O’Brien’s recent debut, before Ben shares some (good) personal news. Then (17:33) they bring on Will Leitch to discuss the St. Louis Cardinals. Will shares what it has been like to root for the team during its win streak, when he realized they were playoff bound, what has gone into this incredible run, and which Cardinals are candidates for some postseason devil magic. Plus, Will makes the case for this year’s version of the team actually being fun before predicting just how deep into October the Cardinals might play.
Note: Since recording this episode, Joe Maddon has confirmed that Ohtani is done pitching for the season, though he will continue to hit.
Audio intro: Buck Meek, “Dream Daughter”
Audio interstitial: Kelley Stoltz, “Cardinal Body”
Audio outro: Of Montreal, “Baby“
Link to Will’s Substack
Link to Will’s book, How Lucky
Link to Will and Bernie Miklasz’s Cardinals podcast, Seeing Red
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Cardinals’ win streak
Link to Jay on Jon Lester
Link to Kevin Goldstein on St. Louis’ resurgence
Link to Ben Clemens on Adam Wainwright
Like to piece on Riley O’Brien’s call-up
Link to episode 1153 with Johnny O’Brien
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I dream, daughter, candle on the altar. |
| 0:18.4 | Blue eye on the left, your mother is brown on the right. |
| 0:26.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 1750 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented |
| 0:33.9 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.6 | I am Elenberg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangrafts. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, people in our mentions are trying to set up some sort of conflict for this forthcoming |
| 0:46.5 | Sunday when there is potential. |
| 0:49.6 | Potential, it's unlikely for both of these things to happen, but it could be the case that |
| 0:55.0 | the Mariners are still in the running for a playoff spot on the last day of the regular |
| 0:59.3 | season. |
| 1:00.3 | And that Shoheotani will be making that start for the angels against the Mariners. |
| 1:05.4 | And people have been tweeting at us as if this would cause some great rift or potential |
| 1:10.8 | conflict between podcasts. |
| 1:12.6 | So what are your thoughts on this potential event? |
| 1:19.0 | I think there's a way for us to both be happy, Ben. |
| 1:22.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | But here's how that, here's the scenario, here's how it goes. |
| 1:26.9 | I think that it is perfectly possible for Otani to pitch well, right? |
| 1:32.1 | To pitch, to potentially even pitch deep into a game, right? |
| 1:36.3 | To do that. |
| 1:37.5 | And then the angels bullpen can be the angels bullpen and the Mariners can still win. |
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