Effectively Wild Episode 2028: Baseball Band

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K 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 […]

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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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