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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1761: Those Wacky, Tacky Balls

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Meg Rowley and guest co-host Grant Brisbee catch up on some non-postseaosn news, including Grant’s elbow injury, MLB’s decision to provide housing for minor leaguers, and Rob Arthur’s research suggesting spin rate and pitch movement have recovered after cratering in light of sticky stuff enforcement, then banter about Laz Diaz’s strike zone in Game 4 […]

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0:00.0

Here's a gold my soul went missing looking for a life no one but one

0:12.0

Now it stumbles like the smile of a fool looking to the sky for shelter from the storm

0:24.0

All the lost souls welcome you to San Francisco

0:34.0

A city that was built by a truck

0:40.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1761 of Effectively Wild, a fancraft spaceball podcast

0:45.0

brought to you by our Patreon supporters on MacRelly Fangrafts

0:48.0

and I am joined with this episode by Grant Brisbane

0:51.0

The athletic, the host of bags and Brisbane as well as the baseball barista podcast, just a mess a podcast

0:58.0

It's Grant Brisbane, Grant how are you?

1:00.0

I'm doing well, I'm doing very well how are you?

1:02.0

I'm doing okay, I have two functioning elbows so I feel like I am up on you ever so slightly

1:11.0

We're going to talk giants in the back half of this episode

1:15.0

You're going to offer some advice to would be opponents of the Los Angeles Dodgers

1:20.0

But before we do that we have some banter and I think we have to start Grant

1:25.0

You recently won on the Android list what's going on with your elbow man?

1:29.0

I did it is a you know it's a sports injury it is a it's based in athletics

1:34.0

So what had happened was I was sitting calmly watching the giants and Dodgers play in game three of the National League Division series

1:43.0

I stood up when Gavin Lux hits a rocket into the wind with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning

1:51.0

I it looked like it was a home run it probably should have been a home run if not for the wind

1:56.0

So I stood up and then as it kind of approached the fence and you saw Stephen Dugger settle under it

2:03.0

I ran to the TV to kind of get a better look not like a hooray but more just like

2:08.0

Baseball moment this is cool and as I was doing it my feet just slipped out from under me and I landed on my elbow

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