Effectively Wild Episode 1899: The Crapper Flapper Wrapper Yapper
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about a baseball (and softball) toilet flapper, discuss (13:32) the continued excellence of Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani (and the benefits of celebrating both instead of elevating one over the other), follow up on the Angels’ shutouts, Mike Trout’s post-injury rebound, the MLBPA’s effort to unionize minor leaguers (38:09), players whose homer totals matched their uniform numbers (46:25), CĂ©sar Hernández’s homers (47:38), Dallas Keuchel’s disastrous denouement (51:14), the Frontier League’s record-setting Empire State Greys (57:38), the variability of check-swing strike call rates (1:00:27), Yankee Stadium’s noise level (1:04:16), and a playoff-seeding quirk’s potential for tanking (1:13:05), followed by additional discussion on Zac Gallen’s scoreless streak (1:22:01) and Joe Maddon’s thoughts on analytics and managing (1:26:35), plus a Past Blast from 1899 (1:46:42) and a few closing thoughts (1:50:30).
Audio intro: The Lumineers, “Flapper Girl”
Audio outro: The Long Blondes, “You Could Have Both”
Link to flapper wrapper photo
Link to Korky flapper page
Link to Hugh Laurie “Corky” montage
Link to article on Clemens and Ohtani
Link to article on Ohtani’s autograph
Link to team shutout leaders
Link to Russell on Ohtani’s WAR
Link to final Frontier League standings
Link to Greys interview episode
Link to lowest pro winning percentages
Link to Evan’s unionization update
Link to list of highest ERAs (min. 60 IP)
Link to Bill James on grounder longevity
Link to Rob Neyer’s response to James
Link to @would_it_dong for Hernández
Link to video of Hernández’s HR
Link to article on Hernández’s HR
Link to Stat Blast on Hernández
Link to Craig Finn tweet
Link to Rob Mains on playoff seeding
Link to Joe Sheehan on playoff seeding
Link to Dan Szymborski on Gallen
Link to Michael Ajeto on Gallen
Link to team OAA leaderboard
Link to “OAA behind pitcher” leaderboard
Link to Maddon’s comments
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1899 story source
Link to Richard Garner primate research
Link to Barzun baseball essay
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| 0:00.0 | Romeo, Juliet, by the knees in the wind, making oaks with a sink, and gun, and bread is Juliet. |
| 0:16.0 | Flopper girl, flopper girl, row here beach and in curves, air of gold and in air, I'll |
| 0:29.3 | burn, it's fly. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 1899 of Effectively Wild, a fan graph spice ball podcast brought |
| 0:37.2 | to you by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm Megrelia, a fan graph, and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of The Ringer. |
| 0:42.4 | Ben, I feel like I said like four different words in that kind of weirdly, strangely. |
| 0:47.4 | Not on purpose, I'm just like thinking back, I'm like, what the, what the, anyway, how |
| 0:52.6 | are you? |
| 0:53.6 | I'm doing well, how are you, other than your weird pronunciations. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm gonna be in my head about it the whole episode now, but I'm otherwise fine. |
| 1:01.0 | How was your long weekend, Ben? |
| 1:02.6 | It was swell, I didn't notice that you said anything strange for a little while. |
| 1:06.0 | I should have kept it to myself and let people go, is she okay? |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, well, I did do one thing on my long weekend. |
| 1:13.0 | Actually, I did a number of things, but this is one of them. |
| 1:15.7 | I know we have a lot to cover today, but let's start here. |
| 1:18.9 | I installed a toilet flapper over the weekend. |
| 1:22.3 | You know, those red rubbery things that you put in the toilet tank that control the |
| 1:28.7 | water coming in and out. |
| 1:29.8 | And sometimes if you have to jiggle the handle, it could be an issue with the toilet flapper. |
| 1:34.6 | Yes. |
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