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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1952: Slash Diction

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and longtime listener and Patreon supporter Jacob Barak banter about Jacob’s baseball-fan background, EW origin story, and much-discussed post about a Shohei Ohtani conundrum in the podcast’s Facebook group, then (10:35) answer listener emails about why we use dashes instead of slashes in displaying hitter’s hits and at-bats, unorthodox infield designs, […]

Transcript

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1952 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented

0:38.5

by our Patreon supporters.

0:40.2

I am Ben Linger of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fan Graphs.

0:44.1

Hello Meg.

0:45.6

And we have the pleasure to be joined today by a Patreon supporter and a Mike Trout tier

0:51.0

supporter who is cashin' in the perk that comes with that tier of support, which is that

0:57.0

you get to or have to be or you don't have to be, but you can choose to be on a podcast

1:03.9

episode.

1:04.9

And our guest today is Jacob Barrick.

1:07.6

Hello Jacob.

1:08.6

How are you?

1:09.6

Hello.

1:10.6

Good.

1:11.6

Glad to be here.

1:12.6

Well, happy to have you.

1:13.6

And I always ask the customary question of our Patreon supporters who join us on these

1:18.6

email episodes, which is what possessed you to support us at this level.

1:25.8

What's your origin story with the podcast and how did you decide to level up here?

1:31.0

I've listened since probably the first day or two.

1:34.4

I've listened to every single episode, so I've loved the podcast.

1:38.0

For me, the question is almost like what took me so long?

1:40.8

Yeah.

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