Effectively Wild Episode 1910: Broken Record

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the fight for the third wild card in the National League and the way in which the expanded playoff format shifts attention toward middling teams, appreciating postseason success and regular-season success, the regular-season dominance of the Dodgers, home-run-record derangement syndrome (17:52) and a middle ground between the warring […]

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0:00.0	So listen, oh, listen, oh, don't wait, don't wait.
0:21.5	Hello and welcome to episode 1910 of Effectively Wild,
0:26.0	a baseball podcast from Fan Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:30.0	I'm Ben Lemberg of The Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs. Hello, Meg.
0:34.0	Hello. How are you?
0:36.0	Well, I'm better than the Philadelphia Phillies.
0:39.0	Boy, yeah, it's getting interesting.
0:42.0	It's getting, you know, you know, Ben, this is a time that they would say,
0:46.0	it's getting interesting.
0:48.0	Yeah. It's getting interesting. The Phillies are at this very moment as we record,
0:53.0	tied with the Milwaukee Brewers for that final wildcard spot.
0:58.0	They have lost five games in a row.
1:00.0	Right. Yeah. Who has the tie break?
1:02.0	It's the Phillies have the tie break?
1:04.0	I'm sorry.
1:05.0	Oh, what a good touch.
1:06.0	Tie breaks are complicated.
1:08.0	It really has made it so much harder.
1:11.0	I mean, it seems like half the numbers you see are not accurate because they don't take into account.
1:16.0	Right. They don't take the tie breaks into account.
1:18.0	Yeah. And it's, you have to look up season series.
1:22.0	It's just before we could just count on a tie being a tie.
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