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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1872: A Moderate Amount of Hijinks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley rant and banter (ranter?) about MLB’s approach to promoting the Futures Game, then (17:33) discuss superheroes throwing baseballs, the latest exploits of the semi-superpowered Shohei Ohtani and Sandy Alcantara, and Ohtani’s chances against Aaron Judge (and others) in the AL MVP race, Stat Blast (39:03) about losing teams with two […]

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0:00.0

I got a job waiting for my graduation 50-thousand year will buy a lot of beer

0:07.3

Things are going great and they're only getting better

0:12.0

And doing all right, getting good grades, the future's so bright

0:18.0

I got a way of shape, I got a way of shape

0:24.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1872 of Effective Bewild

0:27.0

The bandwraff space ball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:30.0

I'm Meg Relly and I'm Raff and I'm joined as always by Ben Lemberg of The Ring

0:34.0

How are you?

0:35.0

I'm doing all right and normally I would ask how you're doing

0:38.0

But I already know the answer, you are fired up, you are aggrieved

0:44.0

So much stronger than I feel

0:46.0

Let's see if I can work my way into Bluster

0:49.0

Yeah, I feel moderately aggrieved, it's not a new grievance

0:54.0

But I find my existing grievance inflamed, reignited, stoked

1:00.0

And the more reason to be aggrieved because it's not new

1:03.0

Yeah, so Ben, can we talk about the future's game for a second?

1:06.0

Please

1:07.0

Let's talk about the future's game within the context of getting people excited about baseball and the draft

1:13.0

I'd like to bracket my draft complaint for closer to the draft

1:18.0

Which is that like the draft being in July remains one of the dumber things I've ever heard

1:23.0

No one likes this, I'd like to just say no one likes this

1:26.0

I know that MLP seems to like it but like very few people who work for them

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