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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2026: Sound and Furries

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Andrew McCutchen’s latest “furries” tweet, the Pirates playing through a high AQI and the need for a safety standard, Domingo Germán’s perfect game and the state of the Yankees, Yandy Díaz turning back into Ground Beef, Shohei Ohtani lapping his league and strangely struggling at the plate with […]

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0:00.0

Of your stash and entry they will be a luxury as well

0:07.0

Special guest in series, pitching and tempo and dreaming as well

0:18.0

Effectively wild

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Effectively wild

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Effectively wild, baseball, water

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to episode 2026 of Effectively Wild

0:35.0

A baseball podcast from Vanguars presented by our Patreon supporters

0:39.0

I am Ben Lemberk of the ringer, joined by Meg Raleia Vanguars, hello Meg

0:43.0

Hello

0:44.0

Happy Andrew McCutchen tweets about furries day to all who celebrate

0:50.0

The not annual tradition but recurring tradition

0:54.0

Everyone was anticipating, it's the start of Anthricon

0:58.0

The furry convention in Pittsburgh and so Andrew McCutchen marked the occasion with a tweet that just said furries as he has been known to do

1:06.0

I you know I what do you say you know yeah I don't know what you say what do you say about them he just says furries

1:15.0

That's it you know maybe that's maybe that's the best approach because it's like here's a thing it exists

1:23.0

Yeah, yeah got a lot of retweets so we're swell for him

1:27.0

The feel good furries tweets unfortunately was soon displaced by the feel bad fact that the pirates are playing baseball as we speak right now in very smoky conditions

1:39.0

Which Andrew McCutchen not thrilled about so not only tweeted about furries but he also said some things about not being completely comfortable playing baseball

1:48.0

With air quality index in the 200s he is masked up for that game and it does seem like there maybe has to be some better process in place like we've seen some games get postponed when the air quality is bad and others not and it doesn't appear completely consistent

2:09.0

Like it's not just the team's decision. It's MLBs. It's the players association. There were some conversations and consultations there but I thought it would be postponed when I was seeing photos from the ballpark on Twitter and it was very clearly smoky

2:26.0

Yeah

2:27.0

New York having been smoky like that recently

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