Effectively Wild Episode 1801: Split End
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the demise of the Rays’ two-city, split-season scheme, Carlos Correa hiring Scott Boras as his agent, and Brandon Gomes of the Dodgers becoming the latest ex-player to ascend to GM, then (31:18) talk about numerous listener nominations of baseball events that predated the podcast that would have made great fodder for Effectively Wild, before closing with a Stat Blast (1:05:20) about the biggest intra-season gaps between Triple-A and MLB performance (plus a postscript about robot umps coming to Triple-A in 2022).
Audio intro: The Smiths, “I Won’t Share You”
Audio outro: Flamin’ Groovies, “Ups and Downs”
Link to news about Rays plan
Link to Sternberg quote
Link to Evan Drellich on Endeavor
Link to Drellich on Endeavor again
Link to Ben Clemens on Endeavor
Link to MLBTR on Correa
Link to Travis Sawchik on Boras
Link to Gomes profile
Link to Facebook suggestions thread
Link to story about two balls in play
Link to story about Raines and collusion
Link to Sonnanstine story
Link to Allan Travers SABR bio
Link to hitter Stat Blast data
Link to pitcher Stat Blast data
Link to Ben on experimental rules
Link to robot umps news
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Life tends to come and go as long as you know, no, no live, no no no no |
| 0:15.0 | I won't share you no more I won't share youใช bladder Paul |
| 0:29.1 | This is my song. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to episode 1801 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Bandgrafe's |
| 0:38.0 | presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.5 | I am the member of the ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Bandgrafe. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello Meg. |
| 0:45.1 | Hello. |
| 0:46.1 | Rest in peace, raise split city plan. |
| 0:50.2 | One of the worst ideas, I'm not suggesting that the idea is dead or that this concept will |
| 0:55.0 | not resurface, but at least this specific implementation of the concept of splitting |
| 1:00.3 | a season between two cities as the rays hope to do with Montreal and the Tampa area. |
| 1:08.0 | That has been next. |
| 1:09.5 | We can put that to rest seemingly. |
| 1:12.3 | It was a weird little era there where people were pretending that that was going to happen |
| 1:16.1 | and that that was a good idea. |
| 1:18.1 | I've been sitting here trying to think of a bad French pun for like the entire day. |
| 1:26.3 | I've been trying to come up with one. |
| 1:28.3 | I failed much like this plan did. |
| 1:30.5 | Oh no! |
| 1:32.3 | I took French in middle school and high school and I should have taken Spanish. |
| 1:39.5 | It would have really been a lot more useful to me. |
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