Effectively Wild Episode 1807: The Principle of the Thing

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the latest lockout stalemate and how to decide where to lay blame, a changing of the umpirial guard in which Joe West (finally) leaves and John Libka enters, and whether there could be an MLB equivalent of the NFL’s current tanking scandal, then answer listener emails about watching […]

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0:00.0	I will know that you will feel the change
0:23.0	I will know that you will feel the change
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1807
0:40.0	Effectively wild a baseball podcast from
0:43.0	Fangross presented by our Patreon supporters
0:46.0	I'm Ben Menderka the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangross
0:50.0	Hello Meg!
0:51.0	Well you think we could request the assistance of a federal mediator to give us some topics for a baseball podcast potentially
0:59.0	Because if they're not going to be mediating anytime soon maybe they could pitch in and help us out here
1:06.0	Not the greatest lockout news this week
1:09.0	No!
1:10.0	Or today as we record on Friday afternoon and we don't have to spend the whole episode lamenting the lockout news
1:16.0	But we could spend a few minutes maybe lamenting the lockout news
1:19.0	Yeah I mean it feels as if we should
1:23.0	You know, here we were sitting having a conversation with our friend Danzenborski about cautious optimism
1:30.0	And the potential of things resolving and an expedient fashion and a manner that is fair and satisfying to both sides
1:38.0	And then as we were recording the news drops that MLB would not be offering a counter proposal to the MLBPA's most recent
1:49.0	And that they would be seeking the aid of a federal mediator in what I think a lot of people see as a PR tactic
1:57.0	So yeah
1:58.0	Yeah, it's not great
2:00.0	There are, I suppose, some legitimate uses for a federal mediator but in this case it seems like well if you want to expedite the negotiations
2:10.0	You could maybe make a counter-offer
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