Effectively Wild Episode 1942: Get Interested in Interest Rates!
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the Pirates’ Vince Velasquez hype video, a “mutant option” for Cody Bellinger, and a Francisco Rodríguez-only Hall of Fame ballot, then (22:09) discuss Carlos Correa’s 13-year contract with the Giants and its implications for the NL West, the Twins and Cubs, and the future of old-player production, along with musings on the state of the Dodgers’ rotation after their signing of Noah Syndergaard. After that (51:24), FanGraphs writer Ben Clemens joins to get everyone interested in interest rates and explain why the CBA and economic conditions have encouraged teams to sign so many free agents to extremely lengthy deals this winter. They close (1:22:40) with a Past Blast from 1942.
Audio intro: The Luxembourg Signal, “Ramblin’ Rodriguez”
Audio interstitial: The Hold Steady, “On With the Business”
Audio outro: PUP, “Grim Reaping”
Link to Velasquez video
Link to signing tweet
Link to Priester video
Link to laptop tweet
Link to Pirates’ winter moves
Link to “mutant option” tweet
Link to Foolish tweet
Link to Belisle mutual option
Link to bad ballot
Link to Dan S. on Correa
Link to Mallory Pugh wiki
Link to Eisert on Syndergaard
Link to Dodgers depth chart
Link to SP depth charts
Link to Simon on Correa
Link to Olney on Judge
Link to Ricketts comment
Link to Ben on long deals
Link to Rosenthal on long deals
Link to EW on long deals
Link to Kovalchuk article
Link to NPR on interest rates
Link to 1942 story source
Link to FDR’s letter
Link to Jacob Pomrenke’s website
Link to Jacob Pomrenke on Twitter
Link to Carlin video
Link to Carlin transcript
Link to Secret Santa sign-up sheet
Link to Secret Santa FB thread
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the end of the world |
| 0:05.0 | There's nothing you don't care if you feel |
| 0:10.0 | The pain, the flames grow higher |
| 0:15.0 | Gastling the carancy |
| 0:20.0 | Everything's the same |
| 0:23.0 | Nothing matters |
| 0:26.0 | It's not my hand but on the wheel |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 1942 of Effective Wild and baseball podcast |
| 0:37.0 | And band graphs presented by our Patreon supporters |
| 0:40.0 | I am Belman Bergab, the ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of band graphs |
| 0:43.0 | Hello Meg |
| 0:44.0 | Hello |
| 0:45.0 | So before we talk about Carl's career, I have three things to make fun of |
| 0:49.0 | Okay |
| 0:50.0 | The first thing is that the pirates released a hype video for their Vince Valesquez signing |
| 0:58.0 | Oh no, really? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, they just they put out a little 30-second-ish Twitter video that shows Vince Valesquez putting on his jersey, his brand new Pirates jersey |
| 1:11.0 | And there's a little voiceover from Vince where he talks about the pirates grit and grind |
| 1:17.0 | And there's just some hype up music and it seems like it's intended to get fans excited about the new acquisition |
| 1:25.0 | Vince Valesquez of the pirates and as a teaser of what's to come, there's a montage of Vince Valesquez performing well |
| 1:32.0 | Which ends with him striking out Shohei Otoni as if to say, hey Pirates vids, check out this guy |
| 1:38.0 | We just got Shohei Otoni no match for him |
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