Effectively Wild Episode 18: Popcorn Popping

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss two players exceeding all expectations in 2012: R.A. Dickey and Eric Chavez.

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0:00.0	Good evening and good morning to our friends and first time listeners. This is effectively
0:20.6	wild the daily podcast from baseball perspectives for Friday August 6th. That's the wrong
0:26.8	day. I don't know. 10th probably. This is our 18th episode which means we have now matched
0:34.8	the entire series run of the television show Freaks and Geeks. I don't think it is inaccurate
0:39.8	to draw some conclusions about our show's cultural importance from that factoid. I'm joined
0:44.6	today by Ben Lindberg. Ben, how are you? I'm good. Now I'm going to be thinking about Freaks
0:49.5	and Geeks for the rest of this episode. So we spend the rest of this episode talking about
0:54.3	Freaks and Geeks. I think we should. I just completed my fourth watching of Freaks and Geeks.
1:00.3	So I could talk about that. I unfortunately let my DVD set out when I was raving it, raving
1:10.0	about it to a friend and it's seven years later and he has not returned it. Anyway, what
1:14.7	are we talking about for real? I figured we should probably do an RA Deky show. Oh, okay.
1:21.6	I would like to talk about Eric Chavez. Okay. Go for it. Alright. So, RA Deky pitched tonight
1:32.2	or last night if you're listening in the morning and he pitched very well. He threw a complete
1:36.7	game shut out against the Marlins and he had been a little less effective lately or he had
1:46.6	a couple starts where he looked less like 2012 RA Deky. And so now he is perhaps back on track
1:55.9	and he looks like he maybe is the favorite for the the NL say young award winner at this point
2:02.5	unless or assuming Strasbourg does get shut down at some point and and Terry Collins now is
2:09.2	talking about pitching him on short rest in order to get him more wins which seems like a kind
2:15.8	of a strange reason to do that. If he can do that you'd think that just the fact that he can do
2:22.0	that would be a good enough reason to have him do that. But I just want to kind of gauge your
2:28.5	confidence in future RA Deky and sort of play something akin to the playoff starter game that we
2:37.9	played last week and just ask you would you rather this starting pitcher or RA Deky for 2013?
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