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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 1956: Jock and Bull Stories

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about players snacking on the field and a baseball equivalent of the EGOT before (23:01) Ben brings on Ron Shelton, the Oscar-nominated writer and director of Bull Durham and the author of The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham, to reminisce about Shelton’s minor league career, how […]

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0:00.0

And I was in bed and I was have seats to serve.

0:04.0

Like old sand, I never live with my brother.

0:09.0

You were crowned king in a belt of wheat.

0:14.0

It's the blue in the warm red beans on a better mustard seed.

0:19.0

Hello and welcome to episode 1956 of Effectively Wild,

0:23.0

a baseball podcast from the bandcast presented by a Patreon supporters.

0:27.0

I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined us always by Meg Rally of bandcast.

0:31.0

Hello, Meg.

0:32.0

Hello.

0:33.0

We've got two guests today.

0:35.0

I am excited about both of them and I will teet them up in just a sec.

0:39.0

So just the briefest of banters today.

0:42.0

First one, another day, another way in which baseball is weird or different or unusual.

0:47.0

And this one is one that you have noted yourself in different contexts at least.

0:53.0

This one was submitted by listener Mike who pointed out I can't think of any other sports where players snack while on the field.

1:00.0

Yes.

1:01.0

Except for cycling where they are given musettes.

1:04.0

Literally the same word as a feedback for a horse which includes snacks and sometimes tiny cans of coke.

1:10.0

So you've made this observation about on fields snacking before.

1:14.0

Snack on the field.

1:15.0

Yeah, it's true.

1:16.0

That is something.

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