Effectively Wild Episode 2078: Drought Conditions
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about saying the wrong episode number in the intro to Episode 2077 and the definition of a title drought, then answer listener emails (18:45) about whether it would make sense to choose a bye in the playoffs if your opponent got to draft a player from the team it defeated, letting a non-playoff team into the playoffs via a lottery, a lineup set by the opposing team’s manager, a NOBLETIGER technicality, placing trampolines on the field, tagging a runner on an object you placed on them, a slugger setting a single-minded goal to break the single-season home run record, loving baseball but not MLB, international talent vs. minor league talent, and Clayton Kershaw playing a partial season à la Roger Clemens.
Audio intro: Xavier LeBlanc, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to Temporal Loom explainer
Link to anniversary-gift explainer
Link to types of droughts
Link to lineup-optimization post
Link to more on lineup optimization
Link to EW wiki trampoline page
Link to NOBLETIGER thread
Link to Semien tag explainer
Link to Semien tag video
Link to EW episode on Rendon
Link to league-quality comparison
Link to 2007 article on Clemens
Link to Clemens announcing return
Link to MLBTR on Hill in 2024
Link to EW emails database
Link to Ben on Jagger
Link to Ben on Super Mario Bros. Wonder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 278 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Vangrass presented |
| 0:28.7 | by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the ringer joined by Meg Raleigh of Vangrass. |
| 0:34.3 | Hello, Meg. Hello. You will notice that I said episode 278. It has come to my attention. |
| 0:42.7 | A crisis has come to my attention. Oh no. Oh no. You did the intro last time. Yeah. It was |
| 0:48.1 | episode 277. Oh boy. Did I say the wrong thing? You said 276. Well, guess what was at the |
| 0:55.9 | top of the episode deal, Bob? It may very well have been by far the right |
| 1:00.9 | equation. That's your fault, Ben. So what do we do? I feel like I don't know that we've encountered |
| 1:07.8 | this problem before. I don't know. We've entered a slipstream. I know. It feels like we've created a |
| 1:13.4 | branching timeline or something. It's just everything spiraling. Like I'm watching Loki right now. |
| 1:19.9 | It feels like the temporal loom is overloaded. We need to prune a branch where Effectively Wild |
| 1:27.3 | went off into the wrong episode number now. I don't know what any of that means, but yeah, I believe |
| 1:32.2 | you. There's like a Ben and a Meg who are now continuing on from 2076 into their own separate |
| 1:40.0 | Effectively Wild timeline where there will just be a different 277 over there. And this is |
| 1:46.9 | 2078. I don't know. I don't know what to do. I mean, we could go back and rerecord it and fix it |
| 1:53.7 | so that we don't confuse future Effectively Wild listeners. Yeah. Or it could just be a little |
| 1:58.5 | Easter egg for everyone who knows. For all I know this has happened before. And I just forgot |
| 2:04.3 | never do it. I just happened to see someone mentioned it in our Patreon Discord group because |
| 2:08.8 | they're sharp listeners. So yeah. I mean, I want to establish a couple of things. The first of |
| 2:16.1 | which is that it is your fault. Okay, I accept your shot's ability. I mean, that's not particularly |
| 2:23.3 | fair of me though, because I could keep it straight if I, you know, thought about it, but I didn't. |
| 2:30.9 | But be a lot to ask, I think, for you to see that I wrote 2076 and the recording thing and say, |
| 2:36.7 | actually, I know intro. Yeah, I just want to check. But wow, what do we even, you know, like what do we |
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