Effectively Wild Episode 1897: Pluses and Meneses

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the annual promotion of Terrance Gore as a harbinger of the changing seasons, the modest September roster expansion and the arrivals or returns of Gunnar Henderson, Oswald Peraza, and Billy Hamilton, an umpire caught swearing on a hot mic (4:45), whether the Yankees could actually lose their lead in the AL East (7:59), the continued torrid hitting of Joey Meneses (20:09), the offensive potential of MLB games in Mexico City (21:34), an interruption (22:02) for a real-time reaction to Meneses’s walk-off homer, and two Past Blasts from 1897 (30:10). Then (46:57) they talk to Evan Drellich, senior writer for The Athletic, about the MLBPA’s effort to unionize the minors, touching on why the announcement was such a surprise, why this campaign is happening now, what will happen next, how a union of major and minor leaguers would work, potential points of conflict and agreement, how the sport could change, how far minor league advocacy has come, the league’s response, what the unionized minors might mean for Rob Manfred, and Jeff Luhnow’s sneaky phone deletions.

Audio intro: James Taylor, “Migration”
Audio interstitial: Todd Rundgren, “Long Flowing Robe”
Audio outro: Billy Bragg, “There is Power in a Union”

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0:00.0	I believe the heart but you can, you can always return.
0:10.0	The rhythm remains unbroken, unspoken, but loud and clear.
0:21.0	It's a slow vibration, my creation.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1897 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
0:36.0	Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:39.0	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rallyh of Fan Graphs.
0:42.0	Hello Megh.
0:43.0	Hello.
0:44.0	The calendar has flipped to September and it blows in New York where I am going down to the 60s tonight.
0:50.0	I'm feeling a little like fall in my mind but nothing makes it feel more like fall like
0:56.0	Terrence Gore being back in the big news.
0:59.0	It's like the swallows coming back to Capisaw and Marcus.
1:03.0	That actually happens in March I think.
1:05.0	They go somewhere else at this time of year.
1:07.0	They go to Argentina but birds start flying south, at least in the hemisphere where I am.
1:12.0	And that's a scientific geography as a construct.
1:16.0	I don't know, we just decided that the earth is this way up and that way down.
1:20.0	It doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
1:22.0	But the point is that those signs mark the passing of the seasons but nothing marks that more than Terrence Gore getting back to the big leagues.
1:30.0	I guess he didn't actually make it back to the big leagues during the regular season last year.
1:36.0	Maybe he did.
1:37.0	Maybe he just didn't play.
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