Effectively Wild Episode 1886: Vin’s Vignettes
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a possible solution to the quandary of not enough slashes in “triple slash stats,” discuss the increasing excitement surrounding Aaron Judge’s home run record chase, and (20:00) share a Past Blast from 1886. Then (24:47) they welcome back singer-songwriter, baseball balladeer, and converted Dodgers fan Dan Bern to talk about his appreciation for the late Vin Scully and his song “The Golden Voice of Vin Scully,” followed by performances of “Golden Voice,” “Ballpark,” “Turns Out, Ohtani,” and “42.”
Audio intro: Hot Chocolate, “Let Them Be the Judge”
Audio interstitial: Electric Light Orchestra, “Mr. Radio”
Audio outro: Dan Bern, “If the Dodgers Had Stayed in Brooklyn”
Link to Zach Kram on Judge
Link to Jay Jaffe on Judge
Link to Mains on July offense
Link to FG WAR leaderboard
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1886 story source
Link to Dan’s first EW appearance
Link to Dan’s website
Link to Doubleheader
Link to “Golden Voice”
Link to “Ballpark”
Link to “42”
Link to Dan on Spotify
Link to Scully’s farewell
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| 0:00.0 | So cold with no, they got plenty |
| 0:05.0 | Talked to keep what cut, get us down |
| 0:09.0 | Let's have people here, what they want out here |
| 0:13.0 | Let them be the judge, be the doer |
| 0:16.0 | Right, let people here, what they want out here |
| 0:22.0 | Let them decide not to be |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1886 of Infected Be Wild |
| 0:33.0 | A fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters, I'm Megrelia |
| 0:37.0 | Fangrass and I'm joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringr |
| 0:40.0 | But how are you? |
| 0:41.0 | Doing alright, how are you today? |
| 0:43.0 | How's your fatigue level today? |
| 0:45.0 | Well, you know, when it's an accumulation of being tired, it takes a couple days to come out of it |
| 0:51.0 | But I'm a little less punchy than I was yesterday |
| 0:54.0 | We officially wrapped our deadline coverage, our last piece related to the deadline |
| 0:59.0 | Went live today, thanks, yeah |
| 1:02.0 | I get to work with some pretty cool smart folks at Fangrass and I think that these are, you know, these are the times when you really see that shine |
| 1:10.0 | So good job all |
| 1:12.0 | Well, I enjoy punchy Meg on the podcast |
| 1:15.0 | So I think it works out well either way |
| 1:17.0 | And our discussion last time has already prompted some response, at least one of our discussions |
| 1:24.0 | Which was the pedantic point about the triple slash line |
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