Effectively Wild Episode 1912: Write-In Campaign

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s efforts to get the new dictionary definition for “ghost runner” changed, how to watch the playoffs when one has cut the cord, Meg’s Rookie of the Year voting deliberations, the underrated Jeff McNeil, the two teams whose per-game attendance declined this season, MLB’s problem gambling PSAs, a DraftKings ad, and more, plus Stat Blasts (56:12) about the worst best players on a team, the change in the percentages of players who make the playoffs and the World Series in their careers, and Mike Trout’s emoji and exclamation point use on Twitter, followed by a Past Blast (1:28:25) from 1912.

Audio intro: XTC, “Your Dictionary”
Audio outro: Ty Segall, “It’s Over”

Link to “ghost runner” definition
Link to playoff broadcasting schedule
Link to McNeil Stathead query
Link to team attendance page
Link to article on Ohtani qualifying
Link to article on Trout’s game
Link to MLB press release
Link to DraftKings ad
Link to article on Ohtani grand slam
Link to Stathead
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to worst team WAR leaders
Link to playoff/WS appearance data
Link to Trout’s first airplane tweet
Link to Trout’s latest airplane tweet
Link to Trout tweet data
Link to 1912 story source
Link to SABR on Cubs ownership history
Link to Chance SABR bio
Link to new book about Murphy
Link to Posey ownership story
Link to Hornsby story
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter

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0:00.0	Well, now that I can see my eyes won't weave, now that I can hear your soul sounds cheap.
0:10.6	Now that I can talk all your call I'll reap.
0:15.6	I'm not so sure that you'll be wed of virgin Mary.
0:20.6	There are no words for me inside your dictionary.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1912 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from
0:34.5	Vangrath's presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of The
0:38.9	Ringer, joined by Meg Raleigh of Vangrath's Hello, Nick.
0:42.7	Hello.
0:43.7	Nick never let it be said that I did not leave the internet a better place than I
0:48.1	found it. Because as we reported yesterday there was some
0:52.2	disconcerting news about dictionary.com and a term that was added to the index
0:58.6	over there. They just added all the new names, all the new words that they do
1:03.8	every year. That just happened on Tuesday and they were two baseball terms in
1:08.1	the big new word dump. I guess we can't use dump anymore without thinking of
1:14.4	Mariners Hero. But I saw that O'Connie rule was one of them.
1:19.2	Yes.
1:20.2	No objection.
1:21.2	Good with that.
1:22.5	Another was Ghost Runner.
1:24.0	Abomination.
1:25.0	Yes. Absolute abomination.
1:27.3	On multiple levels really, as always, just the zombie runner is an abomination in
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