Effectively Wild Episode 2090: How to Be a Shobae

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh talks to Portia, proprietor of super-popular Shohei Ohtani fan account @shoheisaveus, about her Ohtani superfan origin story, life as a self-described “Shobae,” Ohtani’s popularity compared to other athletes and celebrities, following Ohtani from 15 time zones away, stanning a private person, the many mysteries of Ohtani, where the Shobaes would prefer for Ohtani […]

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0:00.0	Baseball is a simulation saw just one big conversation
0:07.0	effectively well. Hello and welcome to episode 2090 of Effectively Wild a Baseball
0:17.8	podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters I am Ben Lindbergh
0:21.9	of the ringer not joined today by my co-host
0:24.2	Meg Raleigh, who is wisely practicing what he preached last time, about the importance of
0:28.4	taking some time off for the holidays. I, however, have not heeded her advice.
0:31.7	It's the weekend after Thanksgiving and I'm showing my thanks by giving you this episode. Hope you like it.
0:36.5	I'm pretty sure you'll like the two great guests who have assisted slash enabled me today. You know on Friday Met's broadcaster Howie Rose briefly caused a stir by
0:44.7	tweeting hearing there might be Otani news today and then less than an hour later
0:48.6	but lots of likes and retweets later added operative terms might end today.
0:53.8	Hearing now it was premature.
0:55.3	No misdirection intended.
0:56.6	Well at least people are paying attention.
0:58.4	Don't worry how a premature transaction affects many men.
1:01.2	And yes, people are always paying attention to show
1:03.6	he otani as we often do on effectively wild and we could wake up every day and
1:07.4	say there might be otani news today I can promise you an otani segment on
1:11.2	this episode this is going to be an extremely
1:13.4	off-season edition of effectively wild folks hopefully in a positive way. To end the
1:18.2	episode we're going to discuss the end of life, specifically baseball players
1:22.4	lives with Sam Gage Jack.
1:24.2	Sam runs the blog R.I.P. Baseball, where he writes about every baseball player who dies,
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