Effectively Wild Episode 1836: To Me, You Are Perfect
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley break down a watershed week in overturning traditions, discussing the Dodgers pulling Clayton Kershaw after seven perfect innings and provoking a “baseball is dying” debate, the Giants flouting the unwritten rules, Alyssa Nakken debuting as the Giants’ first-base coach (under vexing circumstances), the new-look Alex Cobb, Andrew Heaney, and Jesús Luzardo, a three-homer game by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the callup of Padres pitcher Mackenzie Gore, Albert Pujols calling his shot (and getting caught stealing), and the confounding calculations of live play probabilities on Apple baseball broadcasts.
Audio intro: Blood Red Shoes, “The Perfect Mess”
Audio outro: Joe Bourdet, “Unwritten Story”
Link to Jay Jaffe on Kershaw
Link to Fergie Jenkins tweet
Link to Reggie Jackson tweet
Link to EW emergency episode on Hill
Link to EW episode on Stripling
Link to Ben on Tatis and unwritten rules
Link to article about Stripling’s dad
Link to MLB.com article on Stripling
Link to Sam Miller on unwritten rules
Link to story about Kapler and Giants
Link to other story about Kapler and Giants
Link to Woodward unwritten rules story
Link to Shildt and Richardson video
Link to Shildt and Richardson story
Link to Nakken video
Link to Nakken story
Link to The Athletic on Heaney
Link to MLB.com on Heaney
Link to Lindsey Adler on the “whirly”
Link to Ben Clemens on Luzardo
Link to Cobb story
Link to Vladito highlights
Link to history of spiking
Link to Pujols caught stealing
Link to Pujols prediction story
Link to study on sports betting and addiction
Link to Patrick Hruby on betting and addiction
Link to Kurt Streeter on betting and addiction
Link to Apple odds story
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know that it all he likes is they go |
| 0:04.0 | Oh no, they ain't alone |
| 0:09.0 | I'll make you hold |
| 0:12.0 | I can't, I can't, I can't |
| 0:16.0 | I'm not swarming |
| 0:19.0 | I'm just a constant fan |
| 0:22.0 | I'm not swarming |
| 0:25.0 | I'm not swarming |
| 0:27.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1836 |
| 0:30.0 | It was effectively wild |
| 0:31.0 | A fan grasp baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Meg Raleigh, a fan grasp |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the Ranger |
| 0:37.0 | Ben, how are you? |
| 0:38.0 | Well, it's been a busy week in the MLB culture wars |
| 0:42.0 | I am reeling from some of the discourse |
| 0:45.0 | And we're going to contribute to that discourse today |
| 0:48.0 | I think, but we had back-to-back days |
| 0:51.0 | of just trailblazing, ground-breaking, baseball debates |
| 0:56.0 | Baseball is dying, baseball is over |
| 0:59.0 | Maybe some of those debates were a bit blown out of proportion |
| 1:02.0 | But I think it was kind of a fascinating week |
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