Effectively Wild Episode 1937: Never More Than 12
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Ben’s daughter’s first steps, follow up on differentiating players with the same name, equipment replacements, and suggested recreational sports for Ben to play, and then discuss the Royals’ remade coaching staff (19:43), the career of the late, all-time-great Gaylord Perry (22:57), and the latest ESPN Crasnick/Rogers annual offseason MLB insiders survey (44:58), plus answers to listener emails (1:04:33) about an MLB awards ceremony, pitcher wins, and the Tigers’ rebuild, a Past Blast from 1937 (1:31:11), and a postscript.
Audio intro: Brendan Benson, “Spit it Out”
Audio outro: Jim Noir, “JJC Sports”
Link to Jeongeun Lee6 LPGA page
Link to Bradley forgetting outs
Link to The Athletic on Sweeney
Link to Royals Review on Sweeney
Link to Manfred statement on Perry
Link to MLB.com’s Perry obit
Link to Perry’s SABR bio
Link to Perry’s book
Link to Nate on pitcher hitting
Link to Sam on pitcher hitting
Link to Eno on old pitchers
Link to 44+ pitchers by year
Link to latest ESPN survey
Link to Sam on the insiders
Link to Russell on the shift
Link to execs on rule changes
Link to EW emails database
Link to Smyth on qualifiers
Link to Mains on qualifiers
Link to Miller on qualifiers
Link to awards dinner info
Link to Poscast episode
Link to 1937 story source
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to MLBTR on Eflin
Link to strike-zone EW episode
Link to shuttlecock article
Link to road-attendance sheet
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is not now, this is not now |
| 0:06.0 | What's up your mind? |
| 0:10.0 | Stay out now |
| 0:12.0 | It looks like the time |
| 0:16.0 | Is running out now |
| 0:20.0 | It's running out now |
| 0:26.0 | What's it up all now |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1937 of Effectively Wild, a fan-graft space full podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:35.0 | I'm Meg Relly, a fan-graft and I enjoy this always-bed Ben Lemberga, the ringer Ben, how are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Doing well, my daughter took her first official steps today |
| 0:43.0 | Oh Ben, next place |
| 0:46.0 | That's awesome |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, she's been doing walking adjacent activities for quite some time |
| 0:52.0 | But today's the first time where it really is just incontrovertible, definite walking |
| 0:57.0 | Ah! |
| 0:59.0 | Captured on video, very heartwarming |
| 1:01.0 | So my job here is done, I guess |
| 1:03.0 | Parenting wasn't so hard, she can get around without me now |
| 1:07.0 | So time to kick her out of the nest |
| 1:09.0 | I was gonna say, I feel like my friends who have had children have said that when they start walking parenting gets harder |
| 1:18.0 | Oh yeah, it's terrible news |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, it's like now |
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