Effectively Wild Episode 2078: Drought Conditions

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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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 […]

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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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