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Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Effectively Wild Episode 2072: Can You Take Me Higher (or Lower)

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the career of the incomparable Bryce Harper, more “Attaboy” blowback, the end of the Phillies-Braves NLDS, scoring and competitiveness in the postseason as a whole, a Phillies homer-prediction contest, the pitch clock in the postseason, the Championship Series matchups, their most desired World Series matchups, why we say “balls and strikes” instead of “strikes and balls,” and more. Then (1:16:44) The Ringer’s Zach Kram joins to Stat Blast about players who return from absences in October and how various rate stats differ between the regular season and postseason (plus an MLB/NBA playoff comp).

Audio intro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme
Audio outro: Beatwriter, “Effectively Wild Theme

Link to The Onion on Mr. Autumn Man
Link to Verducci on Harper from 2009
Link to double-blow-dryer clip
Link to Harper on pandering
Link to Phillies as himbos
Link to 2014 Harper overrated
Link to 2015 Harper overrated
Link to 2019 Harper overrated
Link to Jake’s article
Link to Rizzo comments
Link to Rizzo apology
Link to BBWAA statement
Link to Jake’s thread
Link to Bissinger/Leitch article
Link to Baumann on NLDS Game 4
Link to Joe Sheehan on playoff scoring
Link to Joe Posnanski on playoff scoring
Link to Alex Eisert on playoff scoring
Link to Defector on the Braves
Link to Strider quote
Link to bullpen prediction game
Link to Dan S. on the ALCS
Link to Schoenfield on the pitch clock
Link to Petriello on the Phillies defense
Link to Kram on upsets
Link to article on balls/strikes in Japan
Link to 1887 umpire indicator
Link to 1886 umpire indicator
Link to Ngram viewer results
Link to paper on English binomials
Link to Topps Now
Link to Stubbs in overalls
Link to long-layoff-players sheet
Link to Ryan Nelson on Twitter
Link to Pinch Thomas SABR bio
Link to FG regular-season stats
Link to FG postseason stats
Link to HR reliance study
Link to playoff randomness comparison
Link to another randomness comparison

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0:00.0

Sometimes I still feel like that little girl hearing grandma's head out of lady. hearing Grandma's handheld

0:17.9

Beady collecting baseball cards before I could read

0:29.0

You say I waste my time tracking all these that lines, but it's here I found my kind I'm all effectively wild.

0:37.8

Hello and welcome to episode 2072 of effectively wild,

0:41.0

a fangrass baseball podcast brought to you by our Patreon supporters.

0:43.7

I'm Magrally of fangrouse and I'm joined by Ben Lemberg of the ringer. Ben, how are you?

0:48.4

Doing okay, how are you?

0:50.2

I'm, you know, I'm, I'm rested. It's an October, Friday the 13th that feels fun and spooky.

0:58.8

We have a championship series field set.

1:04.2

I'm feeling pretty good.

1:06.0

I'm excited about these matchups.

1:08.4

I, yeah.

1:10.1

Me too.

1:11.1

I was the living embodiment of the guy from the onion story about Mr.

1:16.8

Autumn Man walking down street with a cup of coffee wearing sweater over plaid collared

1:20.7

shirt except I don't drink coffee but substitute tea for

1:24.6

coffee and that was me I guess I had kind of a checked jacket over my plaid

1:31.4

collared shirt but other than that that was me I like being that guy I'm a stereotype and I'm fine with it because as we discussed on our last patreon pod this is our favorite time of year and yeah it's a pretty swell baseball time of here as well.

1:45.0

I had one more thought about the Atta Boy Bryce controversy.

1:51.0

I was thinking this because after the Phillies won, they were chanting during

1:56.3

their celebration and jumping up and down and yelling at a boy themselves, having used that as

2:02.1

motivation and it occurred to me I was thinking yes it was

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