Effectively Wild Episode 2028: Baseball Band
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about All-Star-roster minimums and maximums, what the Aroldis Chapman trade tells us about the how teams value prospects, Jake Diekman’s exploits with the Rays, Evan Longoria’s late-career contributions, and the same-named siblings of Carlos Pérez, Carlos Pérez, Wilmer Flores, Wilmer Flores, Wander Franco, Wander Franco, and Wander Franco. Then (45:59) they talk to Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon of The Baseball Project about the band’s origins and longevity, its new album, the inspiration for its songs, its songwriting and recording process, its historical accuracy, ensuring that multiple eras are represented, being musical super-utility players, the band’s audience and place in its members’ musical careers, the musicians they’d want to recruit, and more, plus a Future Blast (1:35:36) from 2028.
Audio intro: The Baseball Project, “New Oh in Town”
Audio interstitial: The Baseball Project, “The All or Nothings”
Audio outro: The Baseball Project, “Screwball”
Link to All-Star rosters
Link to All-Star-selection fun facts
Link to Jay Jaffe on the Chapman trade
Link to Sheehan on the Chapman trade
Link to Meg on Chapman in 2015
Link to FG’s 2016 Chapman breakdown
Link to Diekman projection episode
Link to Ben on Longoria in 2015
Link to 2021-23 3B offense leaderboard
Link to Octavio Hernández Pernía
Link to FG name-linker pop-up
Link to story on Flores brothers
Link to Franco family photo
Link to Franco profile
Link to other Franco profile
Link to story on Pérez brothers
Link to Foreman quote
Link to stream Grand Salami Time!
Link to buy Grand Salami Time!
Link to The Baseball Project website
Link to upcoming tour dates
Link to Steve Wynn’s website
Link to Spin musician baseball preview
Link to The Dream Syndicate reissue
Link to Rick Wilber’s website
Link to Ellis LSD no-no video
Link to Emma B. on Ohtani’s June
Link to Dan S. on Ohtani projections
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, there's a new organ town, and he's a king we need right now. |
| 0:08.0 | No one knows how long he'll stay, but say it, hey, show it, do it, do it today. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 2028 of Effectively Wild a Baseball Podcast from Fangras presented |
| 0:37.4 | by our Patreon supporters, I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangras. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello, Nick. |
| 0:43.7 | Hello. |
| 0:45.1 | You are all listening to the fading strains of a new song called New O in town. |
| 0:50.7 | It is not one of mine, I did not record this in my spare time as an ode to Otani. |
| 0:55.9 | This is a new song by the baseball project on the new album by the baseball project, |
| 1:01.3 | which is called Grand Salami Time and just came out. |
| 1:03.9 | I almost stumbled in our intro and said to a baseball project from Fangras. |
| 1:08.3 | It came very close, saved myself at the last second there, but we love the new baseball project album. |
| 1:14.1 | And we are talking to two of the people who made it today, Steve Win and Linda Pittman, |
| 1:19.3 | who will be joining us soon to talk about it. |
| 1:21.7 | The other members of course are Scott McCoy, Peter Buck and Mike Mills. |
| 1:25.7 | This is their fourth full record. |
| 1:27.3 | It's a true supergroup in every sense of the term and a fairly long lived one by supergroup standards. |
| 1:33.3 | But I've been listening to it a lot in the last few days and I like all the baseball projects music. |
| 1:39.7 | Probably their first album was my favorite heading into this and it's always tough to tell how many |
| 1:45.3 | listens you need to give something to sort of not have a small sample reading on how much you like it. |
| 1:52.1 | It's true talent, right? |
| 1:53.7 | How much you're actually going to like it long term. |
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