Effectively Wild Episode 1849: When the Whiff Hits the Fan
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a wave of baseball ads for cryptocurrencies and NFTs coinciding with crashes in the crypto and NFT markets, injuries to Bryce Harper and Clayton Kershaw, the dominance of the Dodgers, Yankees, and (especially of late) Astros, the early NL West race, Robinson Canó getting a job as Jarred Kelenic loses one, the Mariners’ player development and the franchise’s future, the managerial line of succession and an unlikely player-manager scenario, and Devin Williams and the limits of effective wildness, plus three “How can you not be pedantic about baseball?” terminology questions about describing scoring and strikeouts and recalling players, and a few closing followups.
Audio intro: Joan Armatrading, “Down to Zero”
Audio outro: The Byrds, “Take a Whiff on Me”
Link to story about crypto sell-off
Link to story about crypto/NFT crash
Link to more on the crypto/NFT crash
Link to luna crash explainer
Link to Nationals tweet
Link to Ad Age story about Nats tweet
Link to Marlins NFT press release
Link to MLB/MLBPA NFT press release
Link to MLB’s Gehrig NFT
Link to Ohtani crypto press release
Link to Harper injury news
Link to Kershaw injury news
Link to fun fact about Astros
Link to Jay Jaffe on Yankees homers
Link to BaseRuns records/run differential
Link to Jay on the Canó signing
Link to Kelenic news
Link to Mariners prospect list
Link to EW email questions database
Link to effectively wild pitchers spreadsheet
Link to 2018 story about emergency goalie
Link to 2018 episode about emergency goalie
Link to FanGraphs on emergency catcher rules
Link to SI on emergency catcher rules
Link to Ohtani prankster story
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| 0:00.0 | All the feeling when you're feeling You step like a pinball, don't bump on |
| 0:10.0 | Down to zero with the weakly baby, or another one |
| 0:19.0 | Now you won't get picked up on the ground Down to the ground, down to the ground |
| 0:28.0 | Down to the ground, down to the ground |
| 0:32.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1849 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from |
| 0:38.0 | Femographs presented by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Limberg of the |
| 0:42.0 | Ringer, joined by Negrelia Femographs, how are you Meg? |
| 0:45.0 | I'm doing alright. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, we're speaking on Friday and I've got to say it's actually been a big |
| 0:50.0 | week for me. Exciting stuff is happening and you know I don't really have a head |
| 0:55.0 | for business, I'm not an avid investor, I don't play the market much, but |
| 1:00.0 | sometimes an opportunity just falls into your lap and you'd have to be a fool to pass it |
| 1:05.0 | up and because I'm not much of a mover and shaker, I get most of my info on |
| 1:10.0 | Finance from MLB team Twitter accounts and earlier this week I got a hot tip |
| 1:15.0 | actually from the Washington Nationals account. I don't know if you saw this |
| 1:20.0 | but they tweeted about this exciting new currency called Luna. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, wait let me back up a bit, have you heard of this thing called crypto? |
| 1:28.0 | Like in passing, I don't know very much about it though Ben, is it an exciting |
| 1:33.0 | opportunity for me and my family? |
| 1:34.0 | Well I was sort of in the same boat because I had heard of it but I didn't really |
| 1:37.0 | understand it you know, but on Tuesday at Nationals tweeted this video called |
| 1:43.0 | Crypto 101 which was just what I needed really and I was watching highlights of |
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