Effectively Wild Episode 2089: Putting the WAR in Awards

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the the proper pluralization of “POBO,” then (7:12) answer listener emails about baseball with a five-second pitch clock, how long fans will continue to boo pickoff attempts, what it would take for a team to pay a particular fan to attend (or not attend) its games, Freddie Freeman’s […]

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0:00.0	You never know precisely where it's going to go by definition
0:07.4	effectively wild.
0:09.4	Hello and welcome to episode 2089 of Effectively Wild, a Baseball podcast from
0:15.2	fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I'm Ben Lindbergh of the
0:19.2	ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs who I believe is in the midst of a heated exchange on
0:25.9	Twitter about the proper way to pluralize Pobo-bo-bo-O-B-B-B-B-O-Boh.
0:32.0	You know, God-Sons his most trivial battles to his pettiest little soldiers and this is definitely one of them.
0:41.8	I mean look I get it I get what Michael Bauman is saying.
0:45.6	We've all been wrong before you know. But here's here's the thing and I you know I initially responded to him having written out in response to my plea to the the Pobos to just like you be with your, you know, like, uh, please don't make me bother anyone
1:06.4	today or tomorrow or Friday and say, hey, you left anything right now, and then feel like a little jerk and then have to work you
1:14.5	know while feeling like a jerk the worst combo and he said poboos but he spelled it
1:19.6	capital P lowercase So, and as if to, you know, and I got distracted by whatever point he was making because like that's a, you know, like a terrible thing to do and he acted all affronted as if I was
1:38.8	wrong and even once so far as to to impugn my skills as an editor. And then thankfully, before he did that, I got distracted by other stuff. And so I didn't see it until Craig Goldstein had weighed in to offer that it's like RBI, which is the argument that I would have made, but Craig made it for me.
1:58.0	How courteous of him?
2:00.0	Because like, Bowman doesn't do R's B. I.
2:03.3	Well, that's the thing.
2:04.6	Yeah, that was solidarity from another editor who has to make these decisions.
2:09.0	But Craig saying it's just POBO as a plural like RBI that doesn't really resolve things
2:15.6	because there are many people who argue that it should be R's B. I.
2:19.4	Right and but they're like trying to like get attention you know like that's
2:25.0	that's attention seeking behavior or their pirates yeah because I get it in theory yeah runs batted in it's not run batted in and it's not
2:37.4	president of baseball operation well it is yeah president of baseball
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