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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

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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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 two strikes, and the Orioles’ Pride Night, then (1:02:25) answer listener emails about pointing giant fans at the field, an official scoring decision on a Luis Arraez single, whether the Reds should have called up Elly De La Cruz sooner, whether contending teams should aim for playoff matchups with the Central division winners, and whether playing MLB The Show could affect a player’s IRL performance, plus (1:34:46) a Future Blast from 2026.

Audio intro: Alex Ferrin, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to latest “furries” tweet
Link to McCutchen “furries” explainer
Link to info on fursuit protectiveness
Link to AQI concerns
Link to Pirates’ game-delay tweet
Link to Sheehan on Germán
Link to Paine on the perfecto
Link to “Her?” montage
Link to Yankees offense post-Judge
Link to FG playoff odds
Link to xBAs from the perfecto
Link to longest sub-100-pitch-GS streaks
Link to list of perfectos
Link to perfecto pitch counts
Link to Félix-meme tweet
Link to Germán apology article
Link to other Germán apology article
Link to MLBTR on O’Hearn
Link to story about O’s Pride Night
Link to O’s Pride Night tweet
Link to O’s Pride Night montage
Link to The Athletic on the Rangers
Link to Yandy’s monthy splits
Link to Ben’s Ohtani article
Link to MLBTR’s Ohtani job listing
Link to combined WAR leaderboard
Link to wOBA with <2 strikes
Link to wOBA with 2 strikes
Link to story about Cameron and Félix
Link to info on Félix and fastballs
Link to more on Félix and fastballs
Link to even more on Félix and fastballs
Link to Passan on Pedro and Elly
Link to story about Metrodome fans
Link to Arraez play
Link to info on DiMaggio streak scoring
Link to MLB.com on Elly’s call-up
Link to MLBTR on Elly’s call-up
Link to Harris II’s Real 99 card
Link to listener emails database
Link to Rick Wilber’s website

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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

0:21.0

Effectively wild

0:24.0

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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