Effectively Wild Episode 2111: Insider Fading

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley, and listener Michael Mountain banter about Michael’s proposal for Effectively Wild listener ballpark meetups during the 2024 MLB season, followed by (7:24) Michael’s guest Stat Blasts about the best non-award-winning players, his all-time player tiers, and Hall of Famers (and HoF candidates) who excelled or flopped at leading their leagues at […]

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0:00.0	Effect Wiles, effectively Wiles.
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0:20.5	Hello and welcome to episode 2111 of Effectively Wild a baseball podcast from fan graphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:24.7	I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of fan graphs.
0:28.1	Hello!
0:30.1	And we are a trio. We are joined by Michael Mountain, who has been with us a few times before over the years.
0:38.0	He is a Patreon supporter. He is a listener. He is an occasional contributor. Hello Michael.
0:42.0	Hi, thanks for having me back again. He is an occasional contributor. Hello Michael.
0:42.8	Hi, thanks for having me back again.
0:44.7	Happy to have you back.
0:45.4	We're sort of doing this episode backwards.
0:48.2	We are boldly exploring new orders in which to do Stapelas and interviews.
0:55.0	So later on this episode, Meg and I will be talking to Brian Moritz,
0:59.7	who is a professor at St. Bonaventure in Sports Journalism and Digital Journalism, the author of
1:05.2	Sports Media Guy, a sports journalism and sports media substack.
1:09.2	He wrote a piece with the provocative title, A Major Sports major sports betting journalism scandal is coming.
1:14.6	And so we're going to talk to him about that.
1:16.3	Why this risk exists, why it's worrisome, what can be done about it, whether anyone will
1:20.7	think of the children, which might not sound like the lightest topic, but we had some fun with it.
1:25.5	We had a nice lively conversation about the existential threats facing our industry.
1:30.7	But we wanted to start with something a little more basebally and Michael you are
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