Effectively Wild Episode 1983: Season Preview Series: Yankees and Nationals
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Team USA’s WBC quarterfinal and semifinal victories and Jose Altuve’s injury, then continue their 2023 season preview series by discussing the New York Yankees (28:17) with Brendan Kuty of The Athletic, and the Washington Nationals (1:06:41) with Jesse Dougherty of The Washington Post, plus a Past Blast from 1983 (1:47:29), trivia answers (1:52:16), and an initial reaction to a stone-cold classic Japan-Mexico WBC semifinal (1:53:33).
Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio interstitial 1: The Moaners, “Yankee on My Shoulder”
Audio interstitial 2: Krestovsky, “National Spark”
Audio outro: Keenan The First and RandiVision, “Big Game”
Link to Rosenthal on Turner’s homer
Link to Nightengale on Turner’s homer
Link to Trout reaction GIF
Link to Wainwright quote
Link to Quijada’s pitch
Link to article about Bard
Link to Rosenthal on the mound visit
Link to FG post on Profar
Link to FanGraphs playoff odds
Link to FG payroll breakdown
Link to Yankees offseason tracker
Link to Yankees depth chart
Link to Ben Clemens on Cole
Link to story on in-flight wifi
Link to framing leaderboard
Link to Higashioka analysis
Link to Woodward on back-picks
Link to Brendan’s spring preview
Link to Brendan’s author archive
Link to Rosenthal on Judge
Link to Nationals offseason tracker
Link to Nationals depth chart
Link to Jesse on Cavalli
Link to Jesse on Strasburg
Link to Jesse on Robles
Link to Jesse’s author archive
Link to Ben on Meneses
Link to Svrluga on the Nats
Link to 1983 Pirates article
Link to 1983 Phillies article
Link to baseball exceptionalism wiki
Link to David Lewis’s Twitter
Link to David Lewis’s Substack
Link to trivia answers
Link to Ryan Nelson’s Twitter
Link to Cashner beard article
Link to other Cashner beard article
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | itんな |
| 0:03.4 | yeah |
| 0:07.8 | babe |
| 0:11.6 | white |
| 0:24.0 | oh call by the chance |
| 0:26.6 | you never know precisely where it's gonna go |
| 0:31.0 | by definition |
| 0:33.8 | effectively wild |
| 0:35.8 | hello and welcome to episode 1983 of Effectively Wild a fancraft spaceball podcast brought to you by our patreon supporters |
| 0:41.7 | I'm Meg Raleigh a fan graphs and I'm joined as always by Ben Limberg of the ringer Ben how are you? |
| 0:46.3 | I'm laughing because I goofed this the first time it didn't didn't though |
| 0:50.3 | I almost tripped at the finish line, but I feel like I got through you know this is how I am USA |
| 0:56.3 | USA wow |
| 0:58.1 | SA that's quite loud |
| 1:00.4 | how you are is loud |
| 1:03.2 | What a weekend at the WPC |
| 1:05.2 | yeah |
| 1:06.2 | time |
| 1:07.2 | I'm not an unpatriotic person, but I'm also not someone who expresses my patriotism through |
| 1:12.5 | sporting events typically because what does it really prove about a country to win an A single elimination |
| 1:20.3 | baseball game in a two-week baseball tournament or any other sporting event for that matter that said |
| 1:25.9 | Pretty exciting baseball this weekend for old team USA. Yeah, I mean I |
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