Effectively Wild Episode 1808: The Multisport Player Draft
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley follow up on or banter about minor league free agent draftee reportedly Matt Shoemaker departing for the NPB, raising kids to root for one franchise, precedents for out-of-nowhere sports video game cover models, players nominated by listeners for the nickname “Three-and-Two,” the possible effects of MLB suspending drug testing during the lockout, and Mike Trout’s endearing recent social media activity, then (39:00) draft the MLB players they would most want to see play specific other sports.
Audio intro: Devin Davis, “Transcendental Sports Anthem”
Audio outro: Mattiel, “Athlete”
Link to Shoemaker news
Link to 2022 MiLB FA draft
Link to MLB The Show cover models
Link to Hillis story
Link to Sogard contest story
Link to drug testing story
Link to steroid effects story
Link to Trout sandwich tweet
Link to Trout snow GIF
Link to Trout snow video
Link to Matt Lisle video
Link to Trout’s reply
Link to Trout’s follow-up tweet
Link to Trout’s dunk comment
Link to ESPN on baseball athletes
Link to Trout football story
Link to Jones on Trout
Link to Sam on Hamilton
Link to article on Metcalf sprint
Link to The Athletic on Stallings
Link to Jason Mackey on Stallings
Link to SIS story on Stallings
Link to story on gigantic goalies
Link to jai alai video
Link to World Chase Tag wiki
Link to World Chase Tag video
Link to Pokémon story
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| 0:00.0 | KokลظวЕ away from her |
| 0:03.4 | Her song festival begins |
| 0:04.3 | The music Jahre. |
| 0:10.6 | So we are having some great time |
| 0:17.4 | imperative of day |
| 0:19.5 | And start囡 |
| 0:21.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 1808 of Impact of the Wild, a band-graphed baseball podcast |
| 0:33.9 | brought to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Meg Rallye of band-graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberg of the Ring, Ben |
| 0:39.7 | from Rio. |
| 0:40.7 | So-so, how are you? |
| 0:42.7 | I guess I'm better than so-so, while only so-so, Ben. |
| 0:46.5 | Oh, no particular reason. |
| 0:48.7 | You know, day 60, whatever of the lockout, I guess. |
| 0:51.8 | I just wanted to mix things up because if I say I'm good or great or fine every time, |
| 0:57.5 | then no one will believe me because no one's good all the time, right? |
| 1:01.2 | So I have to vary my mood a little bit in these intros. |
| 1:04.4 | I mean, we want to keep it upbeat for the listeners and everything, but we're only human. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, I suppose that's fair. |
| 1:11.7 | As we are speaking, Rob Manfred and the deputy commissioner and the owners are meeting |
| 1:17.1 | at a hotel in Florida and Tony Clark and Bruce Meyer are meeting with players in Arizona |
| 1:23.1 | and we are meeting here to do a dumb draft. |
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