Effectively Wild Episode 1820: Ban the Grift

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and FanGraphs author Dan Szymborski discuss the drawbacks and virtues of expanded playoffs, the ideal expanded-playoff format, and the biggest beneficiaries of playoff expansion in 2022, why the competitive balance tax functions as a soft cap and how MLB could actually promote competitive integrity, whether banning the shift is a bad […]

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0:00.0	I cannot stand upright in my head upon the light
0:05.6	I have faith but don't believe in this love and love to leave
0:11.2	Everything I live is on the table
0:16.7	Everything I live is out to sea
0:22.3	I have only two emotions careful fear and doubt devotion
0:27.8	I can't get the balance right
0:30.3	It's all my mouth is in the front
0:33.1	Hello and welcome to episode 1820
0:36.5	Effectively wild baseball podcast from Van Graffs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:41.7	I am Ben Minder of the Ringers, joined us always by Meg Rally of Van Graffs' low-meg
0:46.1	Hello
0:46.8	And we are both joined today by Van Graff's own dancin' borski
0:51.0	Hello Dan, welcome back
0:52.2	Hi, how's it going today?
0:53.6	Well the deal is done, that is the deal between MLB and Apple 2Street
0:58.8	2 Friday Night Games per week
1:00.5	The good news is that those games won't be blacked out
1:03.9	The bad news is that you'll need to subscribe to Apple TV Plus if you want to watch them
1:08.6	Although there's some good shows on there, I could recommend if you do
1:11.3	But that will be in place starting with the 2022 season
1:14.8	Of course that's contingent on their being a 2022 season
1:19.0	Which depends on a different deal that still isn't done
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