Effectively Wild Episode 1887: There Used to Be a Ballpark (And it’s Still There)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Dodgers’ and Mets’ “statement” series and the awe and anxiety inspired by Jacob deGrom, follow up on Vin Scully’s musical taste, retractable mounds, and Justin Verlander vs. Max Scherzer, and discuss a recent Rockies pickup and promotion and a hazardous mound visit, followed (33:00) by a Past […]

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0:00.0	Slow or maybe, wind it down
0:09.0	Or slow or maybe, wind it will be round
0:15.0	It's the moon right now to me
0:20.0	It's the fortune of the day
0:24.0	If you're holding it right back
0:28.0	You're only a dream
0:31.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1887 of Effectively Wild
0:36.0	A baseball podcast from Fangrafts presented by our Patreon supporters
0:40.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangrafts Hello Meg
0:44.0	Hello
0:45.0	You know, I am not a big believer in momentum in baseball
0:49.0	Either from inning to inning or game to game or series to series
0:54.0	But I do love a good statement series
0:57.0	And we just had a couple of those because we had the mets facing off with the braves
1:02.0	We had the dodgers facing off with the podres
1:04.0	And there were pretty convincing statements made in those series
1:08.0	Now I don't know what that portends for the rest of the season if anything
1:12.0	But you had the mets who came close to Ferdinand away their division lead
1:18.0	Or not really even Ferdinand away
1:20.0	It was just that Nellanta was winning every day
1:22.0	Now they have taken four out of five from the braves and put some daylight between the two
1:27.0	And they had Jacob DeGrom
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