Effectively Wild Episode 1772: Bananas in Pajamas
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a flurry of signings and other transactions, including the Tigers signing Eduardo Rodriguez, the Angels signing Noah Syndergaard, the Blue Jays extending José Berríos, and the Mets (finally) hiring a GM, Billy Eppler, plus musings on the Tigers and Mariners “turning the corner,” followups on player rankings, unorthodox trades, and the worst way to end a series, and a real-time reaction to some Shohei Ohtani sponsorship news. Then (43:47) they talk to Zack Frongillo, Director of Entertainment for the Savannah Bananas, about the team’s history, his history, the development of “Banana Ball” and its experimental rules, foul balls being in play, how a typical gameday goes, the team’s online and offline appeal, the tryout/audition process, what baseball could borrow from Banana Ball, the Bananas’ plans for the future, and much more.
Audio intro: Radiohead, “Banana Co.”
Audio interstitial: Arkells, “Savannah”
Audio outro: Matt Costa, “Savannah“
Link to Ben Clemens on the Rodriguez signing
Link to ICC cricket rankings
Link to ICC cricket rankings wiki
Link to story on the Guardians’ name
Link to Phanatic lawsuit story
Link to Harwell trade story
Link to story about Youppi! trade
Link to video of 2014 Japan Series ending
Link to story on 2014 Japan Series ending
Link to Twenty20 cricket wiki
Link to the Bananas’ “About” page
Link to Banana Ball explainer
Link to Banana Ball video
Link to Baseball America on the Bananas
Link to the Boston Globe on the Bananas
Link to the WSJ on the Bananas
Link to Max Patkin SABR bio
Link to Eddie Feigner obit
Link to the Bananas on TikTok
Link to Zack’s post in the EW Facebook group
Link to EW episode about Blaseball
Link to info on the Bananas’ 2022 tour
Link to Stove League teaser video
Link to stream Stove League via Kocowa
Link to stream Stove League via Viki
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| 0:00.0 | But I'll come we're really love you |
| 0:08.0 | We're making you but I'm but I'll come |
| 0:16.0 | We're really love to believe in love |
| 0:24.0 | Everything's under control |
| 0:32.0 | We gotta take it up somewhere |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1772 Effective with Wild |
| 0:38.0 | a Fangirlass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Megrelia Fangirlass and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the ringer |
| 0:45.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:47.0 | Doing okay? How are you? |
| 0:49.0 | Stove, it is starting to get hot |
| 0:51.0 | Not even Stove League, which is also hot but yes, the hot Stove League pitching market is moving |
| 0:57.0 | Moving, moving |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, so we got some stuff to discuss today |
| 1:01.0 | So we have the Jose Barrios extension with the Blue Jays for seven years |
| 1:06.0 | And we have the Etwada Rodriguez signing with Detroit for five years |
| 1:11.0 | And then we have the Noah Sindergarde signing with the Angels for one year |
| 1:15.0 | All intriguing moves in their own ways |
| 1:18.0 | So things had seemed to start out slowly and we wondered whether the looming CBA negotiations would slow things down |
| 1:25.0 | But not in every case at least it seems like some teams and players are motivated to get deals done before that other deal gets done |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah, I think that we had talked about the possibility of some of the non-markee guys going |
| 1:39.0 | In this little bit if they found a deal that suited them |
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