Effectively Wild Episode 1959: A Tale of Two Broadcasts

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the yips, more ways in which baseball is different from other sports, big leaguers playing against kids, and Rogers Centre’s new dimensions, plus a Past Blast (36:49) from 1959. Then (41:54) they talk to Sam Blum and Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic and Pedro Moura of Fox Sports […]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 1959 in Effectively Wild, a fan graphs baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters. I'm Big Relie, a fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Lumberger, the Ringer.
0:15.0	How are you?
0:31.0	I'm well. Did you watch any playoff football this weekend, Ben?
0:47.0	Time to go on on my review.
1:04.0	and then had his first extra point of yesterday's contest blocked.
1:09.0	And then I was not prepared for how concerned I would be about him.
1:15.0	I felt deep feeling for a person I've never met and whose name candidly at this exact moment
1:22.0	they were recording escapes me.
1:24.0	People are like, why have you said his name yet?
1:27.0	Magnum, you know the answer?
1:28.0	Because I can't remember right now.
1:29.0	It's meant.
1:30.0	Brett, Brett Marr?
1:32.0	Marr?
1:33.0	Yeah, I said that when you say it.
1:34.0	M-A-H-E-R.
1:35.0	Maybe I remembered but I was worried it'd say it wrong.
1:38.0	Could be true.
1:39.0	Anyhow, that's just a little bit of football, baseball crossover from me, me, to you, Ben,
1:44.0	who doesn't care about one of those things.
1:46.0	Yeah, well, I was concerned for him too to the extent that I was paying attention because
1:51.0	he had, he made his final kick in the game where he missed four, right?
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