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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1894: The Indomitable Dodgers

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the approving responses to Ben’s blistering (by Ben’s standards) Yankee Stadium review, Christian Walker’s scale-breaking defense at first base, “defended” vs. “defensed,” the Dodgers’ historic run of regular-season success, and the battle between teammates Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt for NL MVP frontrunner status, followed by Stat Blasts (49:13) on the Yankees and slumping prospective playoff teams, teams whose players led their league in each type of hit, the biggest differentials in pitcher Game Score from one start to the next (against different teams and the same team), Lucas Giolito and the longest strings of starts with different numbers of earned runs allowed, and the most non-hit RBI to start a career, plus a Past Blast (1:11:56) from 1894.

Audio intro: Super Furry Animals, “Run! Christian, Run!
Audio outro: Atomic Rooster, “Never to Lose

Link to first base OAA leaders
Link to Petriello’s tweet
Link to Mark Simon on Walker
Link to Scoop leaders
Link to Petriello on the Dodgers
Link to Ben on the Dodgers in 2015
Link to Dan Szymborski on Bellinger
Link to Angels lineup with Ford
Link to info on MLB co-MVPs
Link to Tyler Kepner on the Yankees
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Yankees
Link to Jay on playoff-team season ends
Link to MLB.com on playoff-team season ends
Link to Stathead
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to hottest team starts
Link to playoff-team slumps
Link to league hit leaders data
Link to worst 2022 Game Scores
Link to worst pre-2022 Game Scores
Link to biggest Game Score swings
Link to listener emails database
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1894 story source

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0:00.0

We're still giving all that perfect home by the sun

0:07.0

For our Christian realm

0:20.0

Wishing for that perfect home by the sun

0:26.0

Come, King, wow, come

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1894

0:35.0

Effectively wild, a fan-grab space ballpark has brought to you by our Patreon supporters

0:39.0

I'm Meg Rallye, a fan-grabson, joined as always by Ben Lindbergh of the ringer

0:43.0

Ben, how are you?

0:44.0

I'm feeling pretty relieved because not only have I not received any hate mail about my

0:49.0

blistering take on Yinky Stadium on our proceeding episode, but I've gotten a chorus of agreements

0:55.0

and we're here, even from lifelong Yankees fans who seem to share my MND tour

1:01.0

That stadium, so I was a little worried because I figured, you know, if you say something about the Yankees sucks

1:07.0

that some Yankees fans might take exception to that, but maybe because I came from the area

1:14.0

I grew up as part of that tribe perhaps I'm entitled to say it, or maybe it's just that

1:20.0

actually even Yankees fans really do not like this new, not so new Yankees stadium

1:26.0

Like no one that I've seen on any channel has spoken up in support of the stadium

1:32.0

I'm not saying everyone hates it or thinks it's the worst, but no one has said, actually I like it

1:37.0

Actually, it's charming, actually what a pleasant place to go see a game

1:41.0

Everyone is just written in to say, yep, you nailed it

1:44.0

This place is a bummer of a ballpark

1:47.0

It's just, you know, we don't have high demands, that's not true

1:52.0

We have such specific demands

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