Effectively Wild Episode 194: Outlawing Endless Games/Would Baseball Be Better Without Playoffs?

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam discuss whether the league will ever take steps to prevent extremely long games, then talk about what baseball would be like without playoffs.

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0:00.0	I'm a batch of wild kids.
0:05.7	I'm a batch of wild kids.
0:07.8	Good morning and welcome to episode 194 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from
0:13.7	Baseball Respectus.
0:15.4	I am Ben Lindbergh.
0:17.2	joined by Sam Miller.
0:18.7	How are you?
0:19.9	Pretty good.
0:20.9	How are you?
0:21.9	Okay.
0:23.9	What's your topic for the day?
0:25.4	Playoffs.
0:26.8	Playoffs.
0:28.4	Timely.
0:29.4	Okay, mine is something, riffing on something Rob Nair wrote about outlying on games.
0:39.4	Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't see what Rob wrote, but Tango wrote a little something about that recently too.
0:50.4	Oh, I don't know if I saw that.
0:53.4	Well, I'll probably tell you. Yeah, he didn't say, well, he didn't really say much about it.
1:01.4	He noted, he might have been riffing on Nair as well.
1:05.4	Anyway, so it sounds like we both have topics that are not particularly relevant to anything and we'll just ramble for a bit.
1:14.4	Should we, I do want to note that yesterday we answered a question about pick-off throws and whether they should be counted as pitch count, part of the pitch count or how much they should be counted as part of the pitch count.
1:29.4	And I want to note that Travis, who sounds like he knows what he's talking about, emailed and let us know that a big reason a pitch is so stressful on the arm,
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