Effectively Wild Episode 1790: The Fandom Menace
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about their holidays, how the omicron variant is affecting sports and personal decisions, and how analyzing COVID case counts is (kind of) akin to analyzing baseball stats, discuss the pace and prominence of signings of former major leaguers by KBO and NPB teams, the results of 2021 interleague play, and Shohei Ohtani’s showing in a New York Times quiz about notable people from this year, and answer listener emails about minor league signings during the lockout, Ohtani’s Hall of Fame chances, redrafting Derek Jeter or Ichiro Suzuki, and an evolving Hall of Fame, plus a Stat Blast (1:22:30) about how long it took for every player from given MLB games to leave the league for good.
Audio intro: Vince Guaraldi, “The Great Pumpkin Waltz”
Audio outro: John Williams, “Duel of the Fates”
Link to Will Leitch on omicron and sports
Link to thread on omicron and boosters
Link to story on the week after Christmas
Link to MLBTR’s KBO posts
Link to MLBTR’s NPB posts
Link to Phantom Menace duel video
Link to Tom Tango’s league quality post
Link to year-by-year interleague records
Link to Russell Carleton on interleague records
Link to Rob Mains on interleague records
Link to Rob on NL DHs in 2022
Link to 2016 interleague roundtable podcast
Link to NYT notable people quiz
Link to Ohtani’s AP award
Link to story on Astros drafting Jeter
Link to Ichiro’s high school hitting appearance
Link to Ichiro’s high school pitching appearance
Link to Stat Blast inspiration thread
Link to 2014 Stat Blast game
Link to 2013 Stat Blast game
Link to 1945 Stat Blast game
Link to 1906 Stat Blast game
Link to 2009 Stat Blast game
Link to Drake LaRoche retrospective
Link to 2006 Stat Blast game
Link to 1949 Stat Blast game
Link to stream Stove League via Viki
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1790 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meg Rowley of Fan Graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ring or Ben How are you? |
| 0:39.0 | I'm doing quite well during this wonderful week when we are all allowed to slack off, except for this podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | We're still making these podcasts, but for the most part, this is the most acceptable week in which to slack off of the year. |
| 0:53.0 | So I hope that everyone is taking full advantage of that. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, I hope folks are resting. |
| 0:58.0 | We are not completely dark at fan graphs this week, but we are operating on a light schedule. |
| 1:05.0 | And it is, you know, it's nice. |
| 1:07.0 | It's nice to have a little room to breathe in the week. |
| 1:11.0 | So I hope everyone else is getting to have the same experience of their jobs or just be off entirely. |
| 1:17.0 | It should just be it. |
| 1:18.0 | It should just be off. |
| 1:19.0 | It should just be a national. |
| 1:21.0 | It should just be off. |
| 1:22.0 | Everyone should have it off. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, it's an unofficial off week, I think for everyone where no one expects emails to be answered or actual work to get done. |
| 1:31.0 | Although Disney did not send me screeners for the book of BoaFet. |
| 1:34.0 | And so I will be busy writing and recapping live. |
| 1:38.0 | So that's not the best, but I am kind of looking forward to that on some level. |
| 1:43.0 | But the holidays were nice and fun for me and my family. |
| 1:47.0 | I hope they were for you as well and unlike you, I did not return home to find a hold my roof. |
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