Effectively Wild Episode 1900: Triple Frown
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the late Queen Elizabeth II’s first baseball game, the latest on Joey Meneses and Juan Soto (and on Soto being booed!), an Albert Pujols/Willians Astudillo fun fact, a Mets/Yankees first-place race update, additional thoughts on Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, Paul Goldschmidt and the traditional Triple Crown vs. the “sabermetric” Triple Crown, and the great Rookie of the Year races between Julio Rodríguez and Adley Rutschman in the AL and between Spencer Strider and Michael Harris II in the NL, then (49:03) answer listener emails about Carlos Correa’s front-office chops and unwritten rules they actually like, plus a Past Blast (1:22:15) from 1900.
Audio intro: Dan Bern, “Queen”
Audio outro: Keith Richards, “Yap Yap”
Link to story about QE2’s first game
Link to other story about the game
Link to the game at B-Ref
Link to video of the Queen at the game
Link to The Naked Gun clip
Link to Reggie tweet
Link to Meneses/Soto graphic
Link to other Meneses/Soto graphic
Link to Meneses EW YouTube video
Link to post about Nats’ elimination
Link to article about Soto boos
Link to Uni Watch on booing
Link to Pujols/Astudillo tweet
Link to Sarah Lang’s Mets tweet
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Mets
Link to list of Triple Crown winners
Link to Ben Clemens on Judge
Link to Historic Achievement Award
Link to Strider screenshot
Link to Jeremy Frank tweet
Link to CBA details
Link tweet about Correa
Link to story about Correa
Link to Keuchel’s 2017 comments
Link to info on nose-thumbing
Link to list of unwritten rules
Link to Vlad’s comment on showboating
Link to Hang Up and Listen episode
Link to story on Rangers vs. Celtics
Link to EW emails database
Link to Richard Hershberger’s Strike Four
Link to 1900 story source
Link to story about 2023 rules changes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Did you get a bit cleaner in life? |
| 0:06.5 | Are you gonna take a crown? |
| 0:12.0 | I feel, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | Are you ever gonna come to play, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:25.0 | Do you got a bit clean on that? |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 1900 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented |
| 0:38.4 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:40.3 | I am Benlyn Berg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello Meg, how are you? |
| 0:45.6 | I'm well, how are you? |
| 0:47.5 | I'm doing well, although we just learned before we started recording that Queen Elizabeth |
| 0:52.4 | has died. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm not laughing because death is funny. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm laughing because we were getting ready to record. |
| 1:00.9 | I was like, whoa, Queen Elizabeth died. |
| 1:02.2 | That's neither here nor there. |
| 1:04.2 | No, it's still here. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah, apparently. |
| 1:06.2 | We started the last episode with toilet flappers, so this is not any more off topic than |
| 1:09.2 | that. |
| 1:10.2 | But anyway, the Queen is dead, long with the King anyway. |
| 1:14.2 | Oh man, we're like. |
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