Effectively Wild Episode 1759: In Hindsight, This Was Inevitable
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Meg Rowley and guest co-host Bradford William Davis of Insider discuss his new job as an investigative features writer and what the shift from being a daily columnist has meant for how he engages with players, sources, and baseball, and the stories he’s able to tell. Then they turn their attention to the playoffs and discuss the White Sox/Astros series, how Chicago faltered and Houston triumphed, the Astros embracing their heel turn, how players and fans view guys like Carlos Correa and Alex Bregman, why Meg underestimated Boston, how the Astros and Red Sox match up, Christian Yelich, the Brewers’ rotation, the Braves’ fun lineup and bad ballpark traditions, who they expect to emerge out of tomorrow night’s NLDS Game 5 between the Dodgers and Giants, and which teams they think will square off in the World Series.
Audio intro: The Hives, “Hate to Say I Told You So”
Audio outro: The Beths, “You Wouldn’t Like Me”
Link to Five and Dive, Bradford’s podcast
Link to Bradford’s piece on who erased Devin Williams‘ tribute to Black Lives Matter
Link to Matthew Roberson’s piece on Aaron Judge
Link to Joon Lee’s piece on Alex Bregman
Link to Jay Jaffe’s piece on Kiké Hernández
Link to Luke Hooper’s Dodgers/Giants Game 4 recap
Link to Brendan Gawlowski’s Braves/Brewers Game 4 recap
Link to James Fegan’s piece on Ryan Tepera’s remarks about the Astros
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| 0:00.0 | I'm gonna get through your head, walk the mist, give my safe, because I'm gonna |
| 0:10.0 | It's a sad, I'm told you so, alright |
| 0:17.0 | Come on! |
| 0:20.0 | Well and welcome to episode 1759 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph space bowl podcast brought |
| 0:26.0 | to you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Meg Raleigh of Fan Graphs and I'm joined today by Bradford |
| 0:30.5 | William Davis, a return guest, but now with a new gig, Bradford, how are you? |
| 0:36.0 | Hey, Meg, thank you for having me, I am okay, I'm like a little tired because I've been |
| 0:43.0 | working a lot and then also I had the great misfortune of, well I know, great misfortune, |
| 0:48.5 | I sound so privileged, the great fortune of having a flu shot. |
| 0:52.0 | I don't want to anti-vax, this is a rep people podcast, but I am tired. |
| 1:00.0 | I think I might be in the flu shot, but I'm definitely woke up about 12 minutes ago. |
| 1:09.0 | The flu shot thing can knock you around, I got mine a couple weeks ago and the drag |
| 1:14.0 | was definitely not as intense as it was post my second COVID vaccine shot, but you do feel |
| 1:21.0 | that for at least a day where you're dragging a little bit. |
| 1:25.0 | Right, right exactly, so hopefully I'm still a coherent and useful member of this podcast |
| 1:32.0 | today and again science works, vaccines, whatever, please. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, get your shots of your tech and community, but also I'm tired and that's my booth. |
| 1:42.0 | We hope everyone gets their shots and we hope everyone is granted at least a day to recover |
| 1:49.0 | from when they get them. |
| 1:51.0 | So the last time that you were on effectively wild, you were working for the daily news and |
| 1:56.0 | you were in the weeds on baseball pretty much every day and now you have a new job at Insider |
| 2:02.0 | which listeners might be familiar with as business insider, but it is now on a broader mission. |
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