Effectively Wild Episode 1818: Smile, You’re on Manfred Camera
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley are joined by Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic, to talk about the benefits and drawbacks of reporting from the scene of the CBA negotiations, the proper composition of photos of executives walking to meetings, not getting hoodwinked by sources, whether there really was optimism about a deal leading up to the MLB-imposed deadline for delaying the start of the season, whether MLB tried to sneak proposals past players overnight, whether the owners are trying to break the union, whether the owners and players are united internally, what still separates the two sides (and how much money it’s worth), Rob Manfred’s job security, the changing tone of national coverage of the labor negotiations, what could end the lockout, the prospect of on-field changes, and more.
Audio intro: Guided By Voices, “Cohesive Scoops”
Audio outro: Atomic Rooster, “People You Can’t Trust”
Link to Evan’s first Manfred video
Link to another Manfred video
Link to well-composed Manfred video
Link to MLB exec video
Link to Twitter pooping exchange
Link to thread on where talks stand
Link to Evan’s latest report
Link to Evan’s weekend column
Link to MLBPA statement
Link to Stripling quote
Link to Martino report
Link to article on Ohtani’s service time
Link to Clemens on the financial gap
Link to Evan on EW in November
Link to Ghiroli on the talks
Link to Rosenthal on the talks
Link to McCullough on the talks
Link to Passan on the talks
Link to Ben on Lords of the Realm
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| 0:00.0 | You take some ice, you take some light of adhesive scoops to make it all right. |
| 0:12.0 | I know the world is the love you do. |
| 0:16.0 | Tell me what you know now. |
| 0:20.0 | Tell me what's in the bow now. |
| 0:23.6 | I found the love with the leaves of the sky. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 1818 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:33.7 | Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm Ben Lemberg of the Ringer, joined Fan and Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello, Meg. |
| 0:41.8 | Well, if you have found yourself in Florida or Manhattan this week and |
| 0:46.6 | somewhere on a sidewalk or in a parking lot, you came across a man taking |
| 0:52.0 | pictures of people in polos and khakis, sometimes tweeting those photos and |
| 0:58.0 | muttering to himself about the competitive balance tax it may have been our |
| 1:01.9 | guest today. |
| 1:02.8 | Evan Drelick, a senior writer at the athletic, and for my money the best source for |
| 1:07.7 | information on these frustrating CPA negotiations. |
| 1:11.0 | Evan, hello and how are you? |
| 1:13.4 | I mean that in a very sincere sense, not just the routine, how are you? |
| 1:18.0 | Where you say okay and we move on, but really how are you doing these days? |
| 1:21.6 | I think some of them were wearing button down shirts as well. |
| 1:24.3 | I don't know if there was only polo shirts. |
| 1:26.1 | Is it real? |
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